Painting over the cracks

A powerful debut pamphlet exploring trauma, memory and healing through poetry rooted in lived experience and community.

Painting Over the Cracks is Sophie Buchaillard's poetry debut. Inspired by her life and her workshops with survivors of abuse, this pamphlet explores the relationship between unspoken shame and fraying family ties, and the healing power of expression, friendship, and community in overcoming trauma.

Painting Over the Cracks is novelist Sophie Buchaillard’s poetry debut. Inspired by her life and a series of workshops she ran with survivors of abuse, this pamphlet explores the relationship between unspoken shame and fraying family ties, and the healing power of expression, friendship, and community in overcoming trauma. Split into four chronological sections, the pamphlet travels from the anxieties of a single mother to memories of buried traumas that lurk in corners of the mind, colouring every interaction to articulating the unspoken, strong from new friendships and rediscovered communities.