โ Scribed by Victoria Kennefick
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2021
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021
An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021
A Guardian Book of the Year 2021
A White Review Book of the Year 2021
A Sunday Independent (Dublin) Book of the Year 2021
A Telegraph Best New Poetry Books for Christmas 2021
Victoria Kennefick's daring first book, Eat or We Both Starve , draws readers into seemingly recognisable set-pieces - the family home, the shared meal, the rituals of historical occasions, desire - but Kennefick forges this material into new shapes, making them viable again for exploring what it is to live with the past - and not to be consumed by it.
Rebecca Goss writes: 'Victoria Kennefick writes with a fresh urgency, giving us poems that are honest and fearless. She once said: "Poetry has saved my life, made my life. Reading and writing it...
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