The Snow Globe by Pagdin, Jenny

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Author: Pagdin, JennyPoetry by individual poetsPublished on 22 February 2024 by Nine Arches Press in the United Kingdom.Paperback |215 x 141 x 15 | 132g
The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdins powerful, sensitive and stark debut collection. Written from first-hand experience, under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new motherhood, moving through illness, through snow flurry and sunshine, to a place of recovery and love.Threaded through this book are illuminating and courageous poems that settle and unsettle in equal measure. They cluster moth-like around spiritual and mythical figures, unravelling and remaking themselves with needlework and yarn, threaded along shorelines and under starry night skies. Jenny Pagdins skilful and attentive use of a variety of forms reflects multiple and jarring realities with poems dancing their own chaotic, fragmented and strange glinting beauty towards resolution.