Egg/Shell

By
- Victoria Kennefick
Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry

Language: English
Format
Category: Lyric & Poetry

The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024

A Telegraph Book of the Year 2024

Winner of the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2025 'It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away / so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen / my life?' ('Child of Lir') The lives depicted by Victoria Kennefick alter, shatter and recombine in stunning monologues, innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics: her second book Egg/Shell is a diptych, a double album, which explores early motherhood and miscarriage, and 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, in the follow-up to her best-selling Eat or We Both Starve, breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity, formal ingenuity and wit.

Release date

Ebook: 29 February 2024