On Balance

Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. 
Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. 
 
Set against a backdrop of ecological and economic instability, Sinéad Morrissey’s sixth collection, On Balance, revisits some of the great feats of human engineering to reveal the states of balance and inbalance that have shaped our history. The poems also address gender inequality and our inharmonious relationship with the natural world. A poem on Lilian Bland…