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Gone Thing is an unflinching collection drawn from a teen mother’s flight from violence into a precarious kind of freedom. A working-class voice set loose in a rural Andalusian commune. Wolfe hitchhikes across Europe and the United States, mothering on the move, navigating borders, backroads, and the myth of American road icon, Jack Kerouac, who is resurrected by the poet to hold back her hair whilst she vomits or to minimise the dangers of sex work.
Wolfe challenges the hegemonic road trip narrative, confronting the glamour, danger, and erasure woven into its male-dominated tradition. These poems are about escape, about choosing your own path, and the fierce resilience of women to create safety and belonging in a world that often denies them both.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carson Wolfe is a Mancunian poet and Grand Prize Winner of The Disquiet Literary Program 2024. Their work has appeared with POETRY, The Rumpus, The Common, and Rattle, amongst others. In 2023, they won New Writing North’s Debut Poetry Prize, received awards from The Aurora Poetry Prize, The Edward Thomas Fellowship, and were longlisted in The Poetry Society’s National Competition. Their chapbook Coin Laundry at Midnight, was published with Button Poetry in 2026.
Gone Thing is an unflinching collection drawn from a teen mother’s flight from violence into a precarious kind of freedom. A working-class voice set loose in a rural Andalusian commune. Wolfe hitchhikes across Europe and the United States, mothering on the move, navigating borders, backroads, and the myth of American road icon, Jack Kerouac, who is resurrected by the poet to hold back her hair whilst she vomits or to minimise the dangers of sex work.
Wolfe challenges the hegemonic road trip narrative, confronting the glamour, danger, and erasure woven into its male-dominated tradition. These poems are about escape, about choosing your own path, and the fierce resilience of women to create safety and belonging in a world that often denies them both.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carson Wolfe is a Mancunian poet and Grand Prize Winner of The Disquiet Literary Program 2024. Their work has appeared with POETRY, The Rumpus, The Common, and Rattle, amongst others. In 2023, they won New Writing North’s Debut Poetry Prize, received awards from The Aurora Poetry Prize, The Edward Thomas Fellowship, and were longlisted in The Poetry Society’s National Competition. Their chapbook Coin Laundry at Midnight, was published with Button Poetry in 2026.