The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

In her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines her experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women in her family. These poems explore her relationship with her body, with sex, and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love, but also employs humour and mischief, a wry reclaiming of her power.