Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie Faith Lawrence It tells the story of

It tells the story of a father who worked on North Sea oil platforms and Omani oilfields

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my way to access alternative realities – both at the same time

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Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie Faith Lawrence It tells the story ofPublished 28th February 2026. Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie is a collection steeped in metamorphosis, haunting, and quiet resistance. Drawing on myth, the gothic, and the occult, Pattie explores the thresholds between madness and recovery, body and landscape, self and spectral other. Her verse is richly imagistic and finely wrought, moving through poems as incantations, narratives of possession, and shapeshifting lyric forms. Whether invoking