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Cecilia Knapp is a great writer I love her KAE TEMPEST
In her devastatingly powerful debut collection Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact as well as the lessons passed between generations of women
These poems explore womens complicated relationship with their bodies with sex and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love but also employs humour and mischief a wry reclaiming of power
We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town a girl growing up getting out and reckoning with the guilt of being one of these people now
The collection also offers a look at Knapps close relationship with her older brother his struggles with addiction and eventually his death With tenderness she remembers him and unpacks the unique grief that comes after a suicide
Peach Pig is a candid and unflinching look at loss an attempt to find a language for it It grapples with feelings of anxiety insecurity and displaced anger but it is also a collection full of dreams hope and vibrant persistence a willingness to question and to carry on
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