All the Good Things You Deserve

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Summary

How do we love, trust and create in the aftermath of trauma? How do we name and speak that love?

In this powerful new collection from acclaimed poet and novelist Elaine Feeney, images and
memory circle and recur, and the journey from pain towards a place of greater safety is far from linear.

All the Good Things You Deserve juxtaposes violence, hurt and the tyranny of shame with love, beauty and the transformative possibilities of art.

Reviews

Affecting… The caustic love poems…show Feeney at her best spill down the page with the energy of rushing tides
Guardian

About the author

Elaine Feeney

Elaine Feeney is an acclaimed novelist and poet from the west of Ireland. Her debut novel, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O’Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. How to Build a Boat was also shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. Feeney has published the poetry collections Where’s Katie?, The Radio Was Gospel, Rise and All the Good Things You Deserve, and lectures at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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