Sinéad Morrissey

Sinéad Morrissey
Durham Book Festival in 2015
Born (1972-04-24) 24 April 1972
Portadown, County Armagh
OccupationPoet
Notable worksParallax (2013)
Notable awardsPoetry Now Award (2010)
T. S. Eliot Prize (2014)
Forward Prize (2017)

Sinéad Morrissey (born 24 April 1972 in Portadown, County Armagh) is a Northern Irish poet. In January 2014 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection Parallax and in 2017 she won the Forward Prize for Poetry for her sixth collection On Balance. In 2024, she was the recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award (Japan). Her memoir, Among Communists, was published by Carcanet Press in March 2026.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.