Egg/Shell

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ISBN: 9781800173835
Published: 2024
Number of pages: 96
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 21.6×13.5

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Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2024Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022The lives that Victoria Kennefick evokes alter, shatter and recombine, emerging in stunning monologues, innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics: her second book "Egg/Shell" is a diptych, a double album, exploring early motherhood and miscarriage, the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. Acclaimed as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years, Kennefick, following up her best-selling "Eat or We Both Starve", breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity and formal ingenuity.

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