Eat Or We Both Starve

Victoria Kennefick's daring first book, Eat or We Both Starve, draws readers into seemingly recognisable 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 save...