Peach Pig Av Cecilia Knapp

<p>''<b>Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her'' KAE TEMPEST</b><br><br>In her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women.<br><br>These poems explore women''s complicated relationship with their bodies, with sex, and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love, but also employs humour and mischief, a wry reclaiming of power.<br><br>We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town, a girl growing up, getting out and reckoning with the guilt of being ''one of these people now.''<br><br>The collection also offers a look at Knapp''s close relationship with her older brother, his struggles with addiction and, eventually, his death. With tenderness, she remembers him and unpacks the unique grief that comes after a suicide.<br><br><i>Peach Pig </i>is a candid and unflinching look at loss, an attempt to find a language for it. I