The Snow Globe

The Snow Globe is a powerful debut collection by Jenny Pagdin that depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new motherhood, moving through illness, snow flurry, and sunshine to a place of recovery and love. Her skillful and attentive use of various forms reflects multiple and jarring realities, with poems dancing their own chaotic, fragmented, and strange glinting beauty towards resolution.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 22 February 2024
Publisher: Nine Arches Press

The Snow Globe is a powerful, sensitive, and stark debut collection by Jenny Pagdin. Written from first-hand experience under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis, her poetry depicts a fearsome, glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new motherhood, moving through illness, through snow flurry and sunshine, to a place of recovery and love.

Threaded through this book are illuminating and courageous poems that settle and unsettle in equal measure. They cluster moth-like around spiritual and mythical figures, unraveling and remaking themselves with needlework and yarn, threaded along shorelines and under starry night skies. Jenny Pagdin's skillful and attentive use of a variety of forms reflects multiple and jarring realities—with poems dancing their own chaotic, fragmented, and strange glinting beauty toward resolution.

Weight: 132g
Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913437862