Description

Bloodaxe Books, paperback

Publication Date: June 7, 2022

Publisher Marketing: These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through the darker days of new parenthood, teasing out the anxieties which plague us when night falls. Violence against women, the destruction of our environment, the poisons and pitfalls of 21st-century living are explored here in poems by turns lyrical and earthy, yearning and angry. They mine gold from the darkness and seek luminescence in the deepest oceans. Pit Lullabies is Jessica Traynors third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Irelands Dedalus Press.