"It's bracing to read something so clearly articlated"

Best Books of 2024

selected The New Zealand Listener (Dec 2024)

 

In this superb collection, Gail Ingram takes up the terms of denigration used of women ... and makes them defiantly, exquisitely, her own ... profoundly moving but never sentimental, playful but deeply serious, personal yet resolutely political, this is a collection to respect, admire and savour.   

— FIONA FARRELL

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"From aching, broken-form narratives of adoption and separation, to tart and spiky wordplay ... I wanted to read [this collection] in one gulp"

— EMMA NEALE

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"I found myself in the elation, grief, rage and sensuality of these poems. It’s a bird’s-eye view of her life in poetic form, and I couldn’t put it down." 

— SARAH JANE BARNETT