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Eat Or We Both Starve
Year
2021
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Summary
Victoria Kennefick's daring first book, Eat or We Both Starve, draws readers into seemingly recognizable set-pieces-the family home, the shared meal, the rituals of historical occasions, desire-but Kennefick forges this material into new shapes, making them viable again for exploring what it is to live with the past, and not to be consumed by it. Rebecca Goss writes: 'Victoria Kennefick writes with a fresh urgency, giving us poems that are honest and fearless. She once said: "Poetry has saved my life, made my life. Reading and writing it have taught me bravery and discipline." Kennefick is unafraid to explore bereavement, sex and the female body in her poetry. She writes with a visceral originality. Her poems are rich with physical sensations. She is able to find beauty in the big subjects like sorrow and desire, offering us the finest, most startling details. Her identity as a young Irish woman is hugely important to her, something she explores with intelligence and candor. I have always felt there is nothing Victoria could not tackle. The scope in her work is exhilarating.'