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Peach Pig
The debut collection from the Young People’s Laureate for London, Forward Prize-shortlisted author
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This collection will resonate deeply with readers interested in contemporary poetry that examines personal trauma, family relationships, and women’s experiences with raw honesty and lyricism. It suits lovers of emotionally potent verse and those seeking reflections on loss, resilience, and identity.
Peach Pig is the debut collection of poetry by the former young people's laureate Cecilia Knapp, as she grapples with grief and the detachment young women today feel. Full of Cecilia's vivacious hope, persistence and direct, deadpan humour, hers is a hugely relatable and bold new voice.
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Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her — KAE TEMPEST
In her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women.
These poems explore women's complicated relationship with their bodies, with sex, and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love, but also employs humour and mischief, a wry reclaiming of power.
We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town, a girl growing up, getting out and reckoning with the guilt of being 'one of these people now.'
The collection also offers a look at Knapp's close relationship with her older brother, his struggles with addiction and, eventually, his death. With tenderness, she remembers him and unpacks the unique grief that comes after a suicide.
Peach Pig is a candid and unflinching look at loss, an attempt to find a language for it. It grapples with feelings of anxiety, insecurity and displaced anger; but it is also a collection full of dreams, hope and vibrant persistence, a willingness to question and to carry on.
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Cecilia Knapp is celebrated by writers such as Kae Tempest and Kerry Hudson for her rare talent and elegant, powerful expression. Critics highlight the collection’s arresting frankness and emotional weight, especially in poems about Knapp's personal losses. The Observer named Peach Pig their Poetry Book of the Month, praising Knapp’s light touch amid heavy themes and the collection’s blend of generosity, melancholy, and hope.
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ISBN: 9781472156815
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 October 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Corsair
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 110g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Cecilia Knapp is a poet and novelist and the Young People's Laureate for London 2020/2021. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward prize for best single poem. She is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Rendell award and has been shortlisted for both the Rebecca Swift Women's Prize and the Outspoken Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The White Review, Granta, Wasafiri, Popshot, Ambit, Magma and bath magg. She curated the anthology Everything is Going to be Alright: Poems for When you Really Need Them, published by Trapeze in 2021. Her debut novel Little Boxes is published by The Borough Press. She teaches poetry and creative writing in a number of settings and lives in London.
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