More Sky

By Joe Carrick-Varty

Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023
A The Irish Times Book of the Year

More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe Carrick-Varty, tracking the ways in which experience of addiction and domestic violence shape a life.

Carrick-Varty approaches difficult material with great skill and poise: here we find stunning individual lyrics, with an eye for the vivid and surreal; surprising sequences which use Buddhism and Greek myth and the life of coral to refract the poems' interests; and the astonishing sixty-three page long poem 'sky doc' which meditates on suicide, and its retrospective haunting of every corner of its speaker's life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800173016
• ISBN13: 9781800173019
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 132 Pages