The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdin's powerful, sensitive and stark debut collection. Written from first-hand experience, under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new motherhood, moving through illness, through snow flurry and sunshine, to a place of recovery and love.

Threaded through this book are illuminating and courageous poems that settle and unsettle in equal measure. They cluster moth-like around spiritual and mythical figures, unravelling and remaking themselves with needlework and yarn, threaded along shorelines and under starry night skies. Jenny Pagdin's skilful and attentive use of a variety of forms reflects multiple and jarring realities - with poems dancing their own chaotic, fragmented and strange glinting beauty towards resolution.

Powerful and sensitive poetry detailing a first-hand experience of postpartum psychosis

About the Author
Jenny Pagdin's pamphlet 'Caldbeck' was published by Eyewear in 2017, shortlisted for the Mslexia pamphlet competition and listed by the Poetry Book Society. Jenny lives in Norwich with her family, where she works in the voluntary sector. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a BA in English from Oxford University. Her work is featured or forthcoming in New Welsh Review, Smoke, Magma, Ambit, Wild Court, The Stand, Finished Creatures, Interpreter's House, Ink, Sweat & Tears and an Emma Press anthology. www.jennypagdin.co.uk


Book Information
ISBN 9781913437862
Author Jenny Pagdin
Format Paperback
Imprint Nine Arches Press
Publisher Nine Arches Press