“This is the kind of poetry we need right now: compassionate; inventive; inclusive; full of promise; full of hope”
My debut poetry collection How To Be Held was published in 2018 by Burning Eye Books (Bristol, UK).
Following publication, How To Be Held has reached readers all around the world, become a bestseller for the publishing house, and currently sits on the shelves of Yale University Library.
“How To Be Held … is a piece of flint in the chalk, sharpened by sensitivity and used to carve out moments of self-preservation”
Jemimah Halbert Brewster, review via Underground Writers
“Maddie Godfrey is a performance poet who has built a reputation for honesty and strong delivery, and their written voice is equally punchy and powerful”
Writing WA review (2018)
“This book is daring, delicate defiance, an intimate ascension, an ode to survival. Poetry that crawls into your innermost thoughts and makes itself comfortable”
Sara Hirsch, author