Description
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 Traynor’s third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Ireland’s Dedalus Press. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Selected Poetry 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Let's Celebrate! 
The Influence of John Donne: His Uncollected Seventeenth-Century Printed Verse 
The Handle of the Door 
Swansea Automatic 
A Quarter of an Hour 
Being Alive 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
The Tamarit Poems 
Macavity 
Black Shiver Moss 
Dog Poems 
The Black Flamingo 
A Children's Treasury of Milligan 
Gold from the Stone 
Hansel and Gretel 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Signs Like This