Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp Simon & Schuster drawing on five previous full-length

drawing on five previous full-length collections and including the late Dennis O’Driscoll’s prose introduction to the poems

Her work has been translated into many languages and her new book

and reams of notes explaining where on earth all this came from

Part friendship diary

(“Plant Upbringing” was originally included in the volume Wall Painting

Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp Simon & Schuster drawing on five previous full-lengthIn her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines her experience ofmotherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generationsof women in her family. These poems explore her relationship with her body, with sex,and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love, but also employs humourand mischief, a wry reclaiming of her power. We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town, a