It is always a thrill to read Chrissy Banks’ poems. Frank is immediate, straight   talking, humane and hard won. I love these poems for their acute attention to both toughness and tenderness – to withholding and to noisy, snotty grief. And I am enthralled by their many reckonings and recognitions which conjure in me
an enormous yes of recognition.
Fiona Benson

Replete with voice, wit and tenderness, Chrissy Banks’ poems are entertaining,
well-made, and often profound.
Kathryn Maris

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