Some Integrity by Padraig Regan Jonathan Mann Claire Cunningham

Claire Cunningham

'This is when / we make God

Landscapes shift and identities dissolve: ‘the red bricks of the day’ exist ‘in a woman’s chest’

The death of a fridge

other landscapes and cityscapes are tried against it

Some Integrity by Padraig Regan Jonathan Mann Claire CunninghamWinner 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