Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner Julia Bird This is a charged

This is a charged

Lawrence Giffin

With one entry for every day through winter

an unflinching eye that--as Philip Levine says--"looks away from nothing

' says his only biographer Dame Enid Starkie

Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner Julia Bird This is a chargedPermit Me To Write My Own Ending is a collection that spans generations and timescapes from gritty explorations of a London adolescence, to haunting poems detailing love and adulthood in the US. Faulkners language and form dissects the emotional impact of historical trauma, navigating and sharply reframing nationality and memory, interiority and history. Depictions of London during the Blitz and post war Berlin sit alongside poems about motherhood and