Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie Faith Lawrence is a maelstrom of voices

is a maelstrom of voices cast in the underwater shadows and nuclear light of the Anthropocene

It tells the story of a father who worked on North Sea oil platforms and Omani oilfields

There are poems by Emily Dickinson

the purpose of which is to draw the reader closer to God by enabling a fuller experience of scripture

Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie Faith Lawrence is a maelstrom of voicesPublished 28th February 2026. Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie is a collection steeped in metamorphosis, haunting, and quiet resistance. Drawing on myth, the gothic, and the occult, Pattie explores the thresholds between madness and recovery, body and landscape, self and spectral other. Her verse is richly imagistic and finely wrought, moving through poems as incantations, narratives of possession, and shapeshifting lyric forms. Whether invoking