- Published: 28 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781787334670
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 80
- RRP: $34.99
Slip

















- Published: 28 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781787334670
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 80
- RRP: $34.99
Slip is essential reading: a beautiful, fiercely moving debut from a brilliant young poet. Amelia Loulli stakes out fresh imaginative territory in language that makes a new and thrilling music
Jacob Polley, author of Jackself
Slip returns again and again to what should not be a radical thing to say – that a woman must be able to choose what happens to her body. These poems make a complex, wild, contradictory, beautiful, grief-inducing and tender journey into the landscape of motherhood, and what it means to both accept and refuse it
Kim Moore, author of The Art of Falling
Painful, brave and steadfastly honest lyric poems which sing beautifully of the resilience and everyday miracles of the body
Andrew McMillan, author of Physical
Original, essential and utterly bewitching; from fairy tale to clinic, hallelujah-gospel-choir to nursery rhyme, Slip hurtles us through abuse, adolescence, child-raising and abortion. Driven by love, grief and fierce joy, these sublime poems insist throughout on a woman’s right to bodily autonomy and song. An unforgettable collection
Fiona Benson, author of Ephemeron
The poems are bare, bold and declarative, drawing on the idioms of fairy tale, scripture and the medical textbook to great effect. [...] [Slip] offers confidence, razor-sharp humour and a fine lyrical instinct.
Dave Coates, Poetry Book Society
Slip… [is] the first ever collection dedicated to abortion – should be mandatory reading in 2024… Loulli’s poetry is far more than pretty prose – it is a war cry
Independent, *Christmas Guide Guide 2024*