More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty Carcanet Press now in its second printing

now in its second printing

Rice maintains an eloquent refusal to glamorise

— Paul Perry

When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published

More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty Carcanet Press now in its second printingMore 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'