Permit Me To Write My Own Ending is a collection that spans generations and timescapes - from gritty explorations of a London adolescence, to haunting poems detailing love and adulthood in the US. Faulkner's language and form dissects the emotional impact of historical trauma, navigating and sharply reframing nationality and memory, interiority and history. Depictions of London during the Blitz and post-war Berlin sit alongside poems about motherhood and childhood from the perspective of one of Freud's most famous patients. In this defiant debut collection, the act of writing boldly confronts a landscape dominated by patriarchal notions of the female, deftly redefining it with language and vivid imagery. Faulkner unapologetically writes her own ending.
TESTIMONIALS
Faulkner’s ‘hunger for things just out of reach’ transmutes memory with language wrought so precise that colour, objects and people suspend in time, ready for inspection. - PAMELA CROWE, author, THE BELL TOWER
Faulkner is a poet’s poet, an inventive and deft wielder of language, a maker of music. - FRANCESCA BELL, author, BRIGHT STAIN
Faulkner’s fierce, taut verse slices the fading map of war for our tongues and our ears, and with agency, she demands we not turn our heads from the perpetual bloodshed of girlhood. - DR. SARAH JEFFERIS, author, WHAT ENTERS THE MOUTH
This collection is a powerful reminder of the futility and fragility of our collective existence. - ZAC FURROUGH, Founder, Passengers Press
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest and the 2021 Prometheus Unbound Poetry Competition. Her work has been anthologized in the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021 and published in journals in the UK and USA. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She holds a BA in English Literature & Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. Her debut collection Permit Me to Write My Own Ending was released with Write Bloody UK in March 2023.
Permit Me To Write My Own Ending is a collection that spans generations and timescapes - from gritty explorations of a London adolescence, to haunting poems detailing love and adulthood in the US. Faulkner's language and form dissects the emotional impact of historical trauma, navigating and sharply reframing nationality and memory, interiority and history. Depictions of London during the Blitz and post-war Berlin sit alongside poems about motherhood and childhood from the perspective of one of Freud's most famous patients. In this defiant debut collection, the act of writing boldly confronts a landscape dominated by patriarchal notions of the female, deftly redefining it with language and vivid imagery. Faulkner unapologetically writes her own ending.
TESTIMONIALS
Faulkner’s ‘hunger for things just out of reach’ transmutes memory with language wrought so precise that colour, objects and people suspend in time, ready for inspection. - PAMELA CROWE, author, THE BELL TOWER
Faulkner is a poet’s poet, an inventive and deft wielder of language, a maker of music. - FRANCESCA BELL, author, BRIGHT STAIN
Faulkner’s fierce, taut verse slices the fading map of war for our tongues and our ears, and with agency, she demands we not turn our heads from the perpetual bloodshed of girlhood. - DR. SARAH JEFFERIS, author, WHAT ENTERS THE MOUTH
This collection is a powerful reminder of the futility and fragility of our collective existence. - ZAC FURROUGH, Founder, Passengers Press
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest and the 2021 Prometheus Unbound Poetry Competition. Her work has been anthologized in the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021 and published in journals in the UK and USA. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She holds a BA in English Literature & Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. Her debut collection Permit Me to Write My Own Ending was released with Write Bloody UK in March 2023.
