(In)Habit wields form as a heated scalpel, revealing the complex aftermath of a ‘good bad’ relationship.
These poems interrogate what it’s like to live in intertwined and inhabited orbits with a love that is sometimes quicksand, sometimes warped house, always slow consumption.
Unafraid of charting moral greys, (In)Habit reveals that love is not always clean redemption or saving grace.
Prerana Kumar
Like a close-up of a wound, Hetty Cliss’s debut pamphlet shines with painful detail. The everyday hurt of (In)Habit could easily become habit.
But by making language new, by crafting these poems, Cliss’s speaker makes themself notice every irony – and perhaps that is what ultimately saves them. Can it save us too?
Helen Bowell
These are gorgeous poems of love, longing, and lying around, of lines, of lies, and of lego.
These are sharp, witty, confessional poems that capture the zeitgeist of modern romance and explore coping strategies, hurt, and memory.
Don’t miss out on these heart-howling poems you won’t forget.
Paul Stephenson
