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  • ISBN-13: 9781800173835
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Victoria Kennefick
  • Price: AUD $27.99
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  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 01/05/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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The highly anticipated second collection from the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022.

Victoria Kennefick grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry. Her pamphlet White Whale won the Munster Literature Centre Chapbook Competition in 2014 and the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet in 2015. She was named an Arts Council Next Generation Artist in 2016. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, PN Review, The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. Her first collection, Eat Or We Both Starve (2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022.

• Highly anticipated second collection from the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022 and Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022 • Her debut collection was also a Guardian, Irish Times, Sunday Independent (Dublin) & White Review Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Butler Literary Prize, Costa Poetry Award, Derek Walcott Prize & T.S. Eliot Prize • A challenging, sensitive book about transformations: of the poet’s body and life by motherhood, by her experience of miscarriage, and her experience of living with her partner’s transitioning • A bold, serious book: its treatment of difficult, urgent themes is as brave as it is original • A powerful and popular public performer of her work
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