it was never going to be okay Product Form:Paperback / softback --Sondra Fowler

--Sondra Fowler

You see the emotional strength required just to get through the poetic day

as they had been scared away by a great fire

Elizabeth Bachinsky is one of those rare poets capable of negotiating poetic forms with rigour and testing their limits

anger and empathy

it was never going to be okay Product Form:Paperback / softback --Sondra FowlerDescription it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay