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Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner
Permit Me to Write My Own Ending by Rebecca Faulkner
Rebecca Faulkner's Permit 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.
Faulkner’s 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 childhood from the perspective of one of Freud’s most famous patients. In this defiant debut collection, the act of writing boldly confronts a landscape dominated by patriarchal notions of the female. Faulkner unapologetically writes her own ending.
We can drive a long nail through bleach, unlock tangled roots
& mildew. As the days shrivel she’d tell me about men
with shellshock smiles, women who endure. But I sat -
looking & not looking at death - closing the door tight.
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Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest and the 2021 Prometheus Unbound Poetry Competition. Her work has been anthologized in the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021 and published in journals in the UK and USA. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.
