ISBN 978-1-909404-57-1. Pamphlet collection 28 pages.
Joint winner in Category B of the Poetry Space Prize 2024.
Jayne Stanton’s poetry openly confronts the horrors of an illness which ‘lights a fuse’ and explodes the experience of everyday living. The poems here are grounded, intricate and compelling to read – from initial diagnosis to a closing sense of hope. This collection is an intimate human record of enduring and surviving serious illness.
Maria Taylor
These poems have the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel. She uses poetry to show the strength of the individual voice against cancer and the treatment regimes. Hope flickers, sometimes uncertainly, at the margins. Unsentimental, clear-eyed and defiant, these are poems about ways of surviving.
D. A. Prince
Sample poem
Radiology of the left breast
— Jayne Stanton 2025
