Sinéad Morrissey, who was born in 1972, grew up in Belfast where she lectures in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University, and is the city’s first Poet Laureate. She has produced five collections of poetry (all published by Carcanet), including the T. S. Eliot Prizewinning Parallax (2013), from which ‘Baltimore’ is taken. Using the astronomical concept of the ‘parallax’, according to which objects are apparently displaced by a change in the position of observation, the poems explore the paradoxes in what is seen, interpreted and misinterpreted when moments are captured in time, subjected to the authority of a particular perspective.
‘Baltimore’ is reprinted here by permission of Carcanet.
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