ISBN: 978-1-916760-00-4

Price: £11.99

Publication date:12 December 2024

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In Flood, Jessica Mookherjee inhabits several identities in her ‘bone-framed coat’. With overarching themes of migration, otherness, sexual awakening, maternal mental illness, the impact of catastrophe, of loss and being lost. Flood is a debut collection from a genuine virtuoso with a powerful original voice, now reissued in a new edition by Nine Arches Press.

Praise for Flood:

“Jessica Mookherjee’s Flood is an at-times overwhelming read. It is dense with the loss and longing of mothers, daughters and childless women who are nevertheless also both. This tremendously unified book demands to be read at a single sitting, and is a striking testament to a life lived – and survived.” – Fiona Sampson MBE

“The language of Jessica Mookherjee’s poems is vividly immediate, with its own rich culture, distinctive rhythms and striking imagery. The separate stories in the poems of Flood flow together into a single current, deep and powerful enough to evoke the experience of several lives.”– Susan Wicks

About the author:

Jessica Mookherjee is a British poet of Bengali heritage and grew up in Wales and London, now lives in Kent. She has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies and was twice highly commended for best single poem in the Forward Prize 2017 and 2021. Author of three full collections, her second collection Tigress (Nine Arches Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the Ledbury Munthe Prize in 2021. Her most recent books are Notes from a Shipwreck (Nine Arches Press 2022) and Desire Lines (Broken Sleep Books 2023). Jessica also works full time as a Consultant

inPublic Health.