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Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologising trauma. Jen Campbell writes of Victorian circus and folklore, deep seas and dark forests, discussing her own relationship with hospitals — both as a disabled person, and as an adult reflecting on childhood while going through IVF. Please, Do Not Touch This Exhibit is Jen Campbell's second collection, and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her first book-length collection, The Girl Aquarium (Bloodaxe Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the poetry category of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2019 and was a semifinalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 (Best Poetry category).

Table of Contents:
11 At First, the House Is Blue 12 Anatomy of the Sea 15 Dear [______] [1] 16 The Hospital Is Not My House 19 Dear [______] [2] 20 The Hospital Is Not a Place for Bodies 23 Dear [______] [3] 24 For a While, the House Is Green 25 The House of Mirrors Is Owned by the Freak Show 26 The Body Festival 27 Ghost-Whisperer 28 Sometimes, The House Is Made of Glass 29 Dear [______] [4] 30 Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit 31 Technical Rehearsal 32 First Thing, I Am a Forest 33 Dear [______] [5] 34 Alopecia 37 My Brain Is a Sleeping Thing 38 We Must Admit, the House Is Pink 39 Fell 40 For Some Reason, I Can’t Stop Writing About Lighthouses 41 In My Dream, the House Is Dark 42 When I Revisit This Room, I Want to Leave Again 45 Poem as Bad Doctor 46 Somehow, the House Is Orange 47 The Five Stages of IVF 48 When It Arrives, It Weighs 5kg 49 The Hospital Is Not Big Enough for the Two of Us 52 Trying to Gain Entry into The Republic of Motherhood 53 This Is Just to Say 54 When I Go to the Woods 55 The Weekend the Garden Reflected Our House 56 The Trees Are Part of the Process 57 Now, The House Is Red 58 This Doesn’t Have a Name Yet 60 The House Is All the Colours, All at Once 61 Common Side Effects

About the Author :
Jen Campbellis a bestselling author and award-winning poet who lives in London. Her most recent books include a short story collection, The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, a series of children's picture books about a book-loving dragon called Franklin, and The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers (Thames & Hudson, 2021), a collection of gruesome tales illustrated by Adam de Souza. She talks about books, fairy tales and disfigurement on her extremely popular YouTube channel. Her first book-length collection, The Girl Aquarium, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2019. It was shortlisted for the poetry category of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2019 and was a semifinalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 (Best Poetry category). She won the Spelt Poetry Competition 2022 for her poem 'The Hospital is Not My House' from her second collection, Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit (Bloodaxe Books, 2023).

Review :
These are poems which land the reader in the middle of a fantastical ocean and float them to shore on the precision and inventiveness of their imagery; these are poems that create their own mythspaces on the unstable edges of disability and chronic illness, poems which conjure new ways of articulating things about the experience of living in a body which might usually feel beyond language. Jen Campbell's astounding second collection draws us into a world of mythology, sea monsters and metamorphosis. These are hauntingly beautiful poems that catalogue transformation in all of its horror and joy, strangeness and tenderness. Reading these poems is like being yanked off your feet by hidden currents. This book will burrow under your skin and stay there. The poems are bold and assured. A delicate balance of wonder, playfulness and horrific revelation. This blistering poetry collection explores showmanship, the so-called freak industry, fairytales and spectacle – and, in fact, it doesn’t so much unpick these things as smash them to pieces and make them new… I love so much about it: how it kicks against tropes of disfigurement, how science jostles against fantastical circus, how it explores the way in which girls’ bodies can be sites of both self-discovery and exploitation. It is defiant, bold, brilliant. As the penultimate poem states, 'Smash this circus to the ground'.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781780376615
  • Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
  • Edition: PBO
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1780376618
  • Publisher Date: 21 Sep 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 64
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 138 mm


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