Egg/Shell

The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2024 A  Telegraph  Book of the Year 2024 Winner of the Farmgate Café 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 mo