Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner Julia Bird an unflinching eye that--as Philip

an unflinching eye that--as Philip Levine says--"looks away from nothing

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Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner Julia Bird an unflinching eye that--as PhilipPermit Me To Write My Own Ending is a collection that spans generations and timescapes from gritty explorations of a London adolescence, to haunting poems detailing love and adulthood in the US. Faulkners language and form dissects the emotional impact of historical trauma, navigating and sharply reframing nationality and memory, interiority and history. Depictions of London during the Blitz and post war Berlin sit alongside poems about motherhood and