Eating My Grandmother:
A grief cycle
by Kris Kneen

The highly anticipated first collection of poetry from award-winning author Kris Kneen. Winner of the Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry.

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Overview

Following the death of their grandmother, Australian novelist and bookseller Krissy Kneen turned to the art of poetry for the first time. Grief-stricken by their loss, they were unable to work on their latest novel and became obsessed with writing poetry about their grandmother. The resulting poems won 2014’s Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry and are now published for the first time in a collection that offers a kaleidoscope of fitful dreams, tender memories and heart-struck musings that shine new light on our own sense of mortality.

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Kristina Olsson, award-winning author of Boy, Lost

‘Raw and exhilarating, Eating My Grandmother embodies the visceral paradox of grief.’

The Saturday Age

‘A vivid portrait of anunusual character.’

The Big Issue

‘Eating My Grandmother is a powerful memento mori that honours her grandmother and reminds us of our own proximity to dust.’

Kris Kneen

Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of the memoir Affection (Text Publishing Australia 2009 and Seal Press USA 2010) which was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction, and the 2010 ABIA awards for Triptych: An Erotic Adventure (Text 2011) and the literary fiction novel Steeplechase (Text 2013). In 2014 they won the prestigious Thomas Shapcott Award for Eating My Grandmother. Their novel The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine was published by Text in 2015. They have written and directed short films and broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television.