Zarah Butcher McGunnigle: 2-book bundle

An innovative book-length poem about chronic illness, familial dysfunction and the discovery of a sense of self. This acclaimed 2014 debut was described by critics as ‘astonishing’, ‘innovative’ and ‘a grand achievement’, with writing that ‘goes to the aching heart of disconnection and of longing for repair… Butcher-McGunnigle has created a crooked beauty out of shards.’

A collection of prose poems that invites the reader to consider the relationships between internalised beliefs and the development of illness, drawing on psychology texts and the language of self-help, and the exploration of character traits and dramatic tropes.