Holly Isemonger, Greatest Hit The Helen Anne Bell Poetry

The Helen Anne Bell Poetry Award

or those who come upon that identity from the outside

the first stanza from Gulliver’s Travels in which beggars are observed

1955) was born in Namatoo

MTC Cronin

Holly Isemonger, Greatest Hit The Helen Anne Bell PoetryCommended in the 2023 5Islands Poetry Prize for a First Book of Poetry In her long awaited debut collection, Holly Isemonger, engages, pulls apart, and ingeniously reassembles our language to surprising, ingenious ends. Despite the formal innovation there is nothing cold or dry about this collection: it is funny and sad, biting and wrenching, immediate and tender. These poems are excursions which incorporate both the communal and the deeply personal.