Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner Julia Bird Even in apparently domestic and

Even in apparently domestic and personal guise

This is a charged

Lawrence Giffin

moving personal lyrics and portraits of hearth and history

Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner Julia Bird Even in apparently domestic andPermit Me To Write My Own Ending is a collection that spans generations and timescapes from gritty explorations of a London adolescence, to haunting poems detailing love and adulthood in the US. Faulkners language and form dissects the emotional impact of historical trauma, navigating and sharply reframing nationality and memory, interiority and history. Depictions of London during the Blitz and post war Berlin sit alongside poems about motherhood and