Well Done, You Didn't Die Tess Jolly we find ourselves more able

we find ourselves more able to savour what matters

and an impressive familiarity with chemistry and optics’ – Anne Stevenson

“These poems are attuned to threat

Alun Hughes' poems derive from walks in the Heavens

This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer

Well Done, You Didn't Die Tess Jolly we find ourselves more ableIn Well Done, You Didnt Die, Max Wallis returns with a searingly intimate and formally inventive pamphlet that refuses erasure. From the aftermath of breakdown to the first electric flickers of healing, these poems map the brutal, brilliant terrain of survival; mental illness, addiction, queerness, love, sex, shame, and the fragile dignity of staying when staying is a whole new thing entirely. Wallis writes with wit, lyric fire, and radical candour.