In the Lily Room
Erica Hesketh
ISBN: 9781916760165
eISBN: 9781916760172
Price: £11.99
Publication date: 22nd May 2025
Format: Paperback / eBook
Territories: World
Extent: 72pp
DCF: Poetry Collections
Erica Hesketh’s debut collection In the Lily Room tells a story of early motherhood. In poems that are precise, vivid and frank, it examines a new mother’s journey through mental illness, her relationships with her body, her baby and other people, and the often surreal landscape of mothering, against a backdrop of a changing and uncertain world.
Erica Hesketh was born in Copenhagen to a Japanese mother and Danish father. As a poet she experiments with form and voice, including traditional forms from Japan. Her work has been published by The North, Magma, Propel, Under the Radar, PERVERSE, harana poetry and Acumen among others. She placed second in the 2022 Winchester Poetry Prize, and was commended in the 2023 Magma Poetry Competition (Editors’ Prize) and the 2023 Stanza Competition. She was longlisted for the 2024 National Poetry Competition. From 2016 to 2024 she was the Director of the Poetry Translation Centre. She is the editor of Living in Language: International reflections for the practising poet. She is a member of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective 2023–24.
The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdin’s powerful, sensitive and stark debut collection. Written from first-hand experience, under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new motherhood, moving through illness, through snow flurry and sunshine, to a place of recovery and love.
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