Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick

Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria KennefickA daring first collection from an exciting young Irish poet, tackling how to live with the past and not be consumed by it. These poems explore the sense of powerlessness a young woman feels growing from childhood to adulthood in a predominantly Irish Catholic society.

Both are accustomed to being alone

One of America's most important classics

So when he sees a new shop selling giant-sized clothes

'This book teaches me that with one breast or none

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad

and of Clytemnestra

bravery and impossible second chances

a man repatriated in the near east hears the name of an old love called and must unpack history’s suitcase

and his increasing focus in his later work on death and spiritual transcendence

their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood

comes a paean to the power of language

and puts out books that perfectly describe growing problems