They Wish They Had What We Have, Kid - Alanna Offield

AUTHOR

Alanna Offield is a disabled, queer, Chicana from New Mexico now living in the north of Ireland. Her poetry has appeared in Abridged, Dodging the Rain, Rust+Moth, Porridge Mag, Catatonic Daughters, and other publications. She is completing an MA in Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. She is the owner of Seaside Books, an independent online and traveling bookshop.

PRAISE

“... Offield discovers something about herself, and in doing so offers up an honesty that is as courageous as it is introspective, achieving via her chosen avatars a new way to explore the ‘confessional’. ... where familial and romantic interactions can be coded and covert while remaining entirely recognisably human.” – Matthew Rice, author of The Last Weather Observer

“Alanna Offield reflects on her heritage while suspecting the future may not be able to contain her. She writes confidently with a simple yet exciting aesthetic which never betrays the complexity of the ‘basic’ and never denies the subject its integrity or its dreams, whether those dreams come to pass or not.” – Jake Hawkey, author of Breeze Block

“This pamphlet begins in New Mexico, where ‘back home, the mountains/ are actually purple and aspens/ quake golden across them/ like they are covered in sequins.’ ... These bold and vulnerable poems are like mussels; each one offers the reader ‘the slimy guts and…a pearl.’” – Milena Williamson, author of Into the Night that Flies So Fast