Egg/Shell is the second collection of poems by Cork poet Victoria Kennefick.
Her first collection, Eat or We Both Starve, focused on subjects, like eating disorders, Catholicism and Irish history, and went on win the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection 2022 and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.
Watch: Victoria Kennefick reads from Egg/Shell
In this collection, she continues to dive deep and explores a number of emotional themes, from early motherhood and miscarriage, to the impact of a spouse's gender transition and the dissolution of a marriage.
For RTÉ Victoria joined Sean on the line.
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