Amy Acre's second pamphlet reaches both arms out to the wild of being woman, the blood of being mother, the tragedy of being human. From deep within the dark of these poems, there is resolve; there is love; there is light.
Amy Acre is a poet, performer and freelance writer from London. Her poem, 'every girl knows' won the 2019 Verve Poetry Prize. Her first pamphlet, Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads (flipped eye) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and a Poetry School Book of 2015. Amy runs Bad Betty Press with Jake Wild Hall. She co-edited mental health anthology, The Dizziness of Freedom (Bad Betty, 2018) and the Anti-Hate Anthology (Spoken Word London, 2019). Her work has appeared in Poetry London, Poetry Review, Magma, 3:AM Magazine, POEM International: Women on Brexit and on BBC Radio London.
