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    Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real
    Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real
    Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real
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    Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real

    By Padraig Regan, Rachel Piercey and Andrew McMillan

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    Padraig Regan's poems delight in the sensual and the visual: this pamphlet is alive with the textures of paint, sweat, sugar and overripe fruit. Regan riffs on art history in a way which is playful and inquisitive – Johann Zoffany drinks mojitos with David Hockney; Caravaggio outrages and compels; Queen Elizabeth I is effortfully glorious. Many poems focus on the representation of the human body, discovering alternative histories in responses to paintings where the gaze of the male artist is directed towards the male figure in queerly erotic ways.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Emma Press
    Release dateOct 12, 2018
    ISBN9781910139738
    Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real
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    Padraig Regan

    Padraig Regan is the author of two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and in 2020 they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize. They hold a PhD on creative-critical and hybridised writing practices in medieval texts and the work of Anne Carson from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast, where they were a Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. This collection is the recipient of the 2021 Clarissa Luard Prize, awarded by the David Cohen Foundation.

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      Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real - Padraig Regan

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      Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real

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      THE EMMA PRESS

      First published in Great Britain in 2017 by the Emma Press Ltd

      Poems copyright © Padraig Regan 2017

      Introduction copyright © Andrew McMillan 2017

      All rights reserved.

      The right of Padraig Regan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by them in

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