Some Integrity by Padraig Regan Síofra McSherry Music is everywhere

Music is everywhere

a sense of multiple voices that influence and overlay the main speaker

immense particularity of it all

Milne’s Collected Poems captures the ‘skewed luxuriance’ (Guardian) of his eco-socialist poetics

A biological cartography of the effects of trauma and silence

Some Integrity by Padraig Regan Síofra McSherry Music is everywhereWinner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious poems in this eagerly awaited debut collection, a mojito glass reflects: whatever grid of bricks & wood makes up the room wehappen to be sitting inis dilated & wrapped around a single focal point; whateverportion of the sky that happensto be visible through the window becomes a convex bowl. Theweather also happens,as it always does, & passes on, & brings