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Eating My Grandmother

Eating My Grandmother

A grief cycle

by Krissy Kneen
Paperback
Publication Date: 23/07/2015

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Raw and exhilarating, Eating My Grandmother embodies the visceral paradox of grief.' - Kristina Olsson, award - winning author of Boy, Lost Raised by her maternal grandmother, Australian novelist and bookseller Krissy Kneen was understandably bereft when she died. In the midst of writing a novel, she suddenly found herself paralysed with grief and unable to write fiction. Instead, she became obsessed with writing poems about her grandmother as a way to assuage her loss. The result is an award - winning collection of poems that charts a cycle of grieving, offering a kaleidoscope of fitful dreams, tender memories and heart - struck musings that shine new light on our own sense of mortality.
ISBN:
9781459696983
9781459696983
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-07-2015
Publisher:
ReadHowYouWant
Country of origin:
Canada
Pages:
104
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x6mm
Weight:
0.21kg
Krissy Kneen

Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of the memoir Affection (Text Publishing Australia 2009 and Seal Press USA 2010) which was shortlisted for the Qld Premier's Literary Award in the non-fiction category, and the 2010 ABIA awards for Biography, Triptych: An Erotic Adventure (Text 2011) and the literary fiction novel Steeplechase (Text 2013).

In 2014 she won the prestigious Thomas Shapcott award for poetry for her collection, Eating My Grandmother. Her novel Holly's Incredible Adventures in the Sex Machine will also be published by Text in 2015.

She has written and directed short films and broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC television and has had short stories published in literary journals, books and magazines including Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings, Nerve.com, The Big Issue, Best Women's Erotica 2014, Women of Letters and The Lifted Brow.

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