Egg/Shell
Poetry Book Society Choice Spring 2024
Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022
Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022
The lives that Victoria Kennefick evokes alter, shatter and recombine, emerging in stunning monologues, innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics: her second book "Egg/Shell" is a diptych, a double album, exploring early motherhood and miscarriage, the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. Acclaimed as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years, Kennefick, following up her best-selling "Eat or We Both Starve", breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity and formal ingenuity.
Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022
Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022
The lives that Victoria Kennefick evokes alter, shatter and recombine, emerging in stunning monologues, innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics: her second book "Egg/Shell" is a diptych, a double album, exploring early motherhood and miscarriage, the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage. Acclaimed as one of the boldest poetic voices to emerge in recent years, Kennefick, following up her best-selling "Eat or We Both Starve", breaks new ground with generosity, emotional complexity and formal ingenuity.
About the author
Victoria Kennefick grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry. Her pamphlet White Whale won the Munster Literature Centre Chapbook Competition in 2014 and the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet in 2015. She was named an Arts Council Next Generation Artist in 2016. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, PN Review, The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere.