Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney Jo Brandon Wendy Cope observing the livestock

Wendy Cope observing the livestock at a country fair

The collection considers what has been and might yet be

Taylor’s literary culture is basic and concrete

and Lannan and Guggenheim Fellowships

Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney Jo Brandon Wendy Cope observing the livestockSmall Change by Steph Ellen Feeney is a radiant, unflinching collection that distils the seismic transformations of new motherhood into a sequence of poems both intimate and expansive. With lyrical clarity and fierce emotional intelligence, Feeney traces the blur of postnatal days, sleeplessness, bodily estrangement, rural isolation, small joys and submerged rage, crafting a poetics of contradiction, beauty and survival. The work is formally nimble,