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Book SynopsisSusannah Dickey is a poet and novelist from Derry and the author of four pamphlets,
I had some very slight concerns (2017),
genuine human values (2018),
bloodthirsty for marriage (2020) and
Oh! (2022). Her poems have been published in
The Poetry Review,
The TLS,
Poetry London, and
Poetry Ireland Review, amongst others. She is an Eric Gregory Award winner, a prize granted for a collection by poets under the age of thirty. Susannah is the author of two novels,
Tennis Lessons (2020), and
Common Decency (2022), both published by Doubleday UK and Penguin Ireland.
Trade ReviewA poet of tremendous imaginative range, artistic vision, and accomplishment -- Kayo Chingonyi, author of
A Blood ConditionSusannah Dickey’s
bloodthirsty for marriage made me think of Alice Notley in its urgency and playfulness. But Dickey is more surreal, more vivid; there are more dead gerbils. These are poems that scorch the earth with their originality and then write out of the ashes. -- Will Harris
A rare talent, and certainly one to watch. * The Sunday Times *
Using the real-life case of an unidentified woman’s body found in Norway as a jumping off point,
this brilliantly realised first collection by the novelist Susannah Dickey is a multilayered investigation into the ethics of the true crime genre * The Guardian *
[
ISDAL pushes] the boundary of how we might think about form and genre . . . Dickey brings a singular voice and a unique complexity to her investigation -- Tara Bergin * PN Review *
