Isabelle Kenyon

Growing Pains

In ‘Growing Pains’ Isabelle Kenyon navigates the grey space between child and adult. From the playground wars with worms, to the value of a woman’s body as she learns to take up her own space, this collection values kindness in what appears to be an increasingly cruel society.

ISBN 978-1-912876-31-0

Paperback

28 pages

£6.00 +P&P

THE AUTHOR

Isabelle Kenyon is a northern poet and the author of ‘This is not a Spectacle’ micro chapbook, ‘The Trees Whispered’ (Origami Poetry Press), ‘Digging Holes To Another Continent’ (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York) and ‘Potential’ (Ghost City Press). She is the editor of Fly on the Wall Press, a socially conscious small press for anthologies and chapbooks.

“Spartan of both language and spirit, Isabelle Kenyon's uncompromising ‘Growing Pains’ sifts and measures the weight of the human soul. In this unflinching and incisive commute from schoolyard savagery through toxic masculinity and calculating a woman's worth, to grief and dislocation, Kenyon divines humanity's salvation in passing acts of kindness.”

Anne Casey

Poet and Writer (Salmon Poetry, The Times)