– Anthony Anaxagorou
Victoria Richards asks ‘What are girls made of
An elegy for a dead lover ends with a quiet recognition of everyday beauty – first sun streaming through the trees … a skylark in the near field
William Gee is a poet from the West Country who lives with and writes about chronic illness
her language is crisp
Well Done, You Didn't Die by Max Wallis Russell Jones – Anthony AnaxagorouIn Well Done, You Didn't Die, Max Wallis returns with a searingly intimate and formally inventive pamphlet that refuses erasure. From the aftermath of breakdown to the first electric flickers of healing, these poems map the brutal, brilliant terrain of survival; mental illness, addiction, queerness, love, sex, shame, and the fragile dignity of staying when staying is a whole new thing entirely. Wallis writes with wit, lyric fire, and radical candour.