Notes From a Swing State

`This is a woman with fiery vocal chords and serious skill in exercising them.' -Sophie Baggott `Brigley highlights the vastness and intensity of women's desire.' - Moniza Alvi; `Zoe Brigley Thompson chronicles the frightening and disorientating political shifts across Trump's America, whose aftershocks are often felt across the Atlantic. With journalistic rigour and a poet's attentiveness to the least obvious detail, her sense of social justice is woven seamlessly into her writing with delicacy and strength, in a voice that is neither daunted nor hectoring. She is particularly attuned to the most subtle forms of both violence and hope, and so with often startlingly beautiful imagery can offer the reader new ways of gathering morale in disheartening times.' - Emily Trahair, Planet Magazine