Poetry
(Handley) has the reader consider what it means to cross out and erase the experiences of those whose bodies are considered to be different.
-Poetry News
Handley’s witty and defiant poetry highlights the systemic discrimination she faces as a Disabled woman. -
Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller
A potent reminder that poetry can speak of both injustice and joy, even within the same poem/breath.
-Mab Jones, Buzz Magazine
Bethany Handley’s debut pamphlet, Cling Film (Seren Books) explores existing as a young Disabled woman within a crossfire of ableism.
The collection lays bare the barriers that disable people from physical inaccessibility to the discrimination of others, such as incompetent doctors, ignorant passers-by or in dehumanising interviews for Universal Credit.
Set in familiar Welsh places – from the Heath Hospital in Cardiff to Mynydd Mawr, Handley asks the reader to travel in her skin in these witty and profound poems.
