'Portrait of a Young Girl Falling' is unapologetic in its feminist exploration of desire, consent, identity, and gendered experience. Stunning and experimental, this compact debut collection is brimming with fresh strategies of association, productive or interrogative ambiguities, multiplicities of meaning that make space for new ways of thinking. “'Portrait of a Young Girl Falling' is the feminist poetry I want for my train journey, my bath, my coffee, and my life. This is why I read poetry. We need poetry like this, unexpected as it is confident, hard at times, messy, bodily, but alive with women.” Wendy Allen, author of Plastic Tubed Little Bird (Broken Sleep Books), co-editor of annie journal "A powerful read...honest and rich poems that explore feminine trauma and healing." Ness Owen, author of Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim (Parthian), winner of the Greenpeace Prize Poems for the Planet. "Intense, visceral, and will leave its teeth in you for a long time after reading. It is a staggering accomplishment." Briony Collins, author of The Birds, The Rabbits, The Trees (Broken Sleep Books), co-editor of Cape Magazine “The lively inventiveness of these poems is part of the work of making space for new ways of thinking and being, for developing ‘star-stuffed ears’ that might attune us differently to others and to the world." Zoë Skoulding, literary critic and poet, author of A Marginal Sea (Carcanet) Katrina Moinet won Globe Soup's Short Story and 48-hour Flash Fiction prizes. Since joining Globe Soup, Katrina has been a Bournemouth Writing Festival prize-winner, highly commended twice by Hedgehog Press, and work accepted in journals including Raw Lit, Mslexia, annie, The Post Grad Journal, Ffosfforws, Firmament, Wild North Wales. |