A moving account in poetry of one woman’s pathway through violence and addiction.
My Honest Poem is a moving and powerful poetry collection that follows recovery from a life fractured by family violence and addiction. It is a coming-of-age story of a young New Zealand woman rebuilding strength and hope in the spaces left by trauma.
Author Biography:
Jess Fiebig is a Christchurch based poet whose work has featured in Best New Zealand Poems 2018, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 and 2019, Landfall, Turbine and Takahē. She was runner up in the 2019 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.