Ceremony is a remarkable achievement, for while recognising the slipperiness and contingence of language, as well as the power at play in words and representation, it has a remarkable, searing clarity—so that these poems seem to look right back at you. Newby’s stares, glances and glimpses look for new ways of looking, living and loving. She opens our eyes. — Emily Hasler

Caitlin Newby was born in Los Angeles. She has had poems and translations published in Ambit, Oxford Poetry, and Poetry Ireland Review. In 2018 she was shortlisted for The White Review Poet’s Prize and in 2019 was named the inaugural Book nders Chair in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre. She is the poetry editor of The Tangerine, a magazine of new writing based in Belfast.