Sinéad Morrissey

Sinéad Morrissey is a Northern Irish poet. In January 2014 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection Parallax and in 2017 she won the Forward Prize for Poetry for her sixth collection On Balance. In 2024, she was the recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award (Japan). Her memoir, Among Communists, was published by Carcanet Press in March 2026.