States

High-stepping between giddiness and gravity, in long lines that work to bridge the gap between now and then, and here and there, these poems consider what it means to live on this fraught planet as it spins anti-clockwise at roughly a thousand miles per hour, and where it seems, now more than ever, as if the funfair has ended and the disaster movie has just begun.

Ciaran Berry grew up in Ireland and now lives and teaches in Connecticut. His first collection,The Sphere of Birds, was winner of the Crab Orchard Competition, the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. The Dead Zoo (2013) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.