Amelia Loulli is a PhD candidate at Newcastle University where she researches the poetics of breath and writing trauma. In 2021 she won a Northern Writers' Award and in 2023 she was writer in residence at the British School in Rome. She currently lives in Cumbria with her three teenagers and their whippet.
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