Small Change by Steph Feeney

Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney is a radiant, unflinching collection that distils the seismic transformations of new motherhood into a sequence of poems both intimate and expansive. With lyrical clarity and fierce emotional intelligence, Feeney traces the blur of postnatal days, sleeplessness, bodily estrangement, rural isolation, small joys and submerged rage, crafting a poetics of contradiction, beauty and survival. The work is formally nimble, often fragmentary, and suffused with humour, candour and mythic resonance. What emerges is a document of maternal time in all its fractured, luminous detail: devotional, ambivalent, and defiantly alive.

PRAISE for Small Change:

This collection is set in the lush, unruly terrain of early motherhood. Moving between tenderness and irreverence, exhaustion and ecstasy, these poems confront the terror and responsibility of loving a tiny creature with total force. They shimmer with colour - lilac, iris, lavender, raisin — and pulse with appetite: I WANT. From baby discos to church shit, from cotton candy to confetti, the domestic becomes electric, strange, and sensuous. This is motherhood — intimate, defiant, and ordering another negroni.

   — Rachel Long

Stephanie Feeney
I was born in Louisiana, and raised in Texas. Her poems have been published by The Poetry Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, and anthologised by Fish Publishing. She grew up in a family of fishermen, musicians and drinkers, and still dabble in all three. These days, she calls Suffolk home.