The Poet

This is the book I have always needed, it is F*****G BRILLIANT and everyone should read it. * Nikita Gill *A beautiful, biting page-turner… is it any different for young women, these days? Reid’s novel provides – as the best fiction does – a nuanced, thought provoking answer to this question. * Irish Times *Brisk, disturbing and very satisfying * Daily Mail *Written in verse and wildly original, this passionate tale of coercive control and female solidarity is nothing short of a work of art. * Zoella *We’ve never read anything quite like this before… the poetry sings so beautifully… you’ll be completely submerged * Cosmopolitan *Brilliant and beautifully written. It’ll have you raging and rejoicing till the very last page. * Manjeet Mann, winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2021 *I devoured it both as a breath-taking, page-turning novel on betrayal and a series of startling poems, chiselled from bone. The Poet is going to e x p l o d e into 2022 and leave us all spilt and shuddering! Astounding book. * Helen Paris *A novel in verse about poetry, female desire and achievement, gender politics and revenge, it weeps, rages and triumphs in words as exquisite as emotion. Loved it. * Julie Cohen *A thunderstorm of female power with nods to the greatest poets of all time. Drop everything and read. * Ericka Waller *Superb … Raw, angry and utterly compelling … The writing is stunning - I hope it’ll put verse novels on the map. * Hush - Five Unmissable Books for 2022 *

Louisa Reid has lived in Cambridge, London and Zurich, and now lives near Manchester. She graduated with a degree in English from Oxford before training as an English teacher at Cambridge University and she continues to work as a teacher. Louisa is the author of four novels for young adults; Black Heart Blue and Gloves Off were both nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

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