Unwritten Woman

'Delicate and furious, Unwritten Womanis an instant feminist classic, and a collection that should be on every young woman’s bookshelf, and beyond. It announces Lavery as a thinker of width, nuance, and challenge, asking the questions that might help us answer to ourselves. Outstanding'

-- Joelle Taylor

'This collection comes at you like a lantern from the shadows. With a creak of the floorboards and wash of delight, Hannah Lavery has brought something gothic and gorgeous to life in these pages' 

-- William Letford

'Like the best of hard drinks, it lingers by the chesty bits with serious intent then makes its move on the heart's soft chambers. Never without its theatre, never without its thrum, through the tenderness it thrashes'

-- Micheal Pedersen

'These essential poems perfectly capture the “dreadful shipwreck” of not being easily categorised as one thing or another in a world that already resists writing you into its histories. Hannah's words reveal the enormous strength required to heal that fracture'

-- Marjorie Lotfi

'Unwritten Woman is an exquisite collection that highlights Hannah Lavery’s masterful skills with narrative and form. Lavery's skilful hand as a playwright adds thrilling dimension to these poems, and she crafts scenes that are imbued with a stunning poetics'

-- Alycia Pirmohamed

'Lavery's poems lift the woman from the margins. Often dark, sometimes hilarious, occasionally brutal,Unwritten Woman is a vital look at our culture through the lens of the other'

-- Jim Mona