Egg/Shell

By Victoria Kennefick

The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024
A Telegraph Book of the Year 2024
Winner of the Farmgate Caf National Poetry Award 2025

'It is hard to hurt and then explain the hurt away / so as not to hurt anyone. But have you seen / my life?' ('Child of Lir')

The lives depicted by Victoria Kennefick alter, shatter and recombine in stunning monologues, innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics: her second book Egg/Shell is a diptych, a double album, which explores early motherhood and miscarriage, and the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. Acclaimed as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years, Kennefick, in the follow-up to her best-selling Eat or We Both Starve, breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity, formal ingenuity and wit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800173830
• ISBN13: 9781800173835
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.5"