Flood

Flood

Jessica Mookherjee

ISBN: 978-1-916760-00-4 

eISBN: 978-1-916760-01-1

Price: £11.99

Publication date: 12 December 2024

Format: Paperback / eBook

Territories: World

Extent: 72pp

DCF: Poetry Collections

 


In Flood, Jessica Mookherjee inhabits several identities in her ‘bone-framed coat’. With overarching themes of migration, otherness, sexual awakening, maternal mental illness, the impact of catastrophe, of loss and being lost. Flood is a debut collection from a genuine virtuoso with a powerful original voice, now reissued in a new edition by Nine Arches Press.

 

Praise for Flood:


“Jessica Mookherjee’s Flood is an at-times overwhelming read. It is dense with the loss and longing of mothers, daughters and childless women who are nevertheless also both. This tremendously unified book demands to be read at a single sitting, and is a striking testament to a life lived – and survived.” – Fiona Sampson MBE

 

“The language of Jessica Mookherjee’s poems is vividly immediate, with its own rich culture, distinctive rhythms and striking imagery. The separate stories in the poems of Flood flow together into a single current, deep and powerful enough to evoke the experience of several lives.”

 – Susan Wicks

 

 

Jessica Mookherjee lives in Kent. Her work appears in many journals including Agenda, Poetry Wales, The North, Rialto, Under the Radar, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and in various anthologies including Bloodaxe’s Staying Human. She was highly commended in the 2017 and 2021 Forward Prizes for Best Single Poem. She is author of three full collections, inlcuding Tigress, (Nine Arches Press 2019) which was shortlisted for the Ledbury Munthe Prize for Best Second Collection in 2021.She is a joint editor of Against the Grain Poetry Press.

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