Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp Simon & Schuster The perfect way to keep

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

Part friendship diary

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

Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp Simon & Schuster The perfect way to keepIn 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