Phare de Malahide et la plume de Sinead Morrissey

Photographie du phare de Malahide en Irlande accompagnée d’une poésie intitulée le phare (lighthouse) de Sinead Morrissey.

Lighthouse (Phare)

My son’s awake at ten, stretched out along
his bunk beneath the ceiling, wired and watchful.
The end of August. Already the high-flung
daylight sky of our Northern solstice dulls
earlier and earlier to a clouded bowl;
his Star of David lamp and plastic moon
have turned the dusk to dark outside his room.
Across the Lough, where ferries venture blithely
and once a cruise ship, massive as a palace,
inched its brilliant decks to open sea –
a lighthouse starts its own nightlong address
in fractured signalling; it blinks and bats
the swingball of its beam, then stands to catch,
then hurls it out again beyond its parallax.

He counts each creamy loop inside his head,
each well-black interval, and thinks it just for him –
this gesture from a world that can’t be entered:
the two of them partly curtained, partly seen,
upheld in a sort of boy-talk conversation
no one else can hear. That private place, it answers,
with birds and slatted windows –I’ve been there.

Sinead Morrissey (From: Parallax, Publisher: Carcanet, Manchester)

Source : https://www.poetryinternational.org/

Le saviez-vous ?

Le parcours poétique de Sinéad Morrissey, née en 1972 à Portadown en Irlande du Nord, a débuté officiellement dans les années 1990 avec l’obtention du prestigieux prix Patrick Kavanagh dont elle reste à ce jour la plus jeune récipiendaire. Ce corpus compte six recueils de poèmes : There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), The State of the Prisons (2005), Parallax (2013) et On Balance publié en 2017. Il présente une nette composante autobiographique. La jeune poétesse puise en effet dans ses propres expériences la matière de la plupart de ses poèmes.
Pour en savoir plus : https://preo.u-bourgogne.fr/ (analyse très fine de Blessures et sentiments par Christelle Serée-Chaussinand)