Lady | Pre-Order Publication date: 10th April 2025

ISBN: 9781916760141
eISBN: 9781916760158
Price: £11.99
Publication date: 10th April 2025
Format: Paperback / eBook
Territories: World
Extent: 72pp
DCF: Poetry Collections

Cover artwork: ‘Sent Off’, 2019 (photo) © Juno Calypso

Lady, the new collection of poems by Laurie Bolger, plays with the arc of a chick flick. Whilst trying to be the most honest version of themselves the poems play the parts of housewife, fitness instructor, landlady, hen, sister, mother, boxer or drunk.. and many others in poems celebrating the resilience of working-class women, autonomy and love.

Praise for Lady by Laurie Bolger:

“Dazzling, moving, witty and insightful poems which look at the world with an oft-surreal eye, and show the lives, the truths, the people, who might ordinarily be overlooked”- Andrew McMillan

“Intimate, warm, and with teeth clenching wit, Bolger turns the domestic into an epic. Her leaps of surreality are breathtaking, unexpected and painful. Moving, tender and always curious. Lady is a book that will hold your hand in the supermarket." - Joelle Taylor