Lessons from the School of Night

Lessons from Stanza 2018: Sinéad Morrissey

In a guest episode of the podcast, Suzannah V. Evans interviews Sinéad Morrissey, who won the Forward Prize for best collection for her 2017 book, On Balance. Morrissey was delivering the keynote lecture at this year's Stanza Poetry Festival, where the interview was recorded, in St. Andrews in the spring. They discussed the importance of form, the development of On Balance, and Les Murray's influence on Morrissey's work. She discusses and reads her poems 'On Balance' and 'The Rope' at 9m30s and 13m43s. On Balance was reviewed in Issue 3 of the Scores. Photo by Lukas Becker on Unsplash.