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The Snow Globe is Jenny Pagdin s powerful sensitive and stark debut collection Written from first hand experience under the glass dome of postpartum psychosis her poetry depicts a fearsome glittering inner storm of severe mental illness during new motherhood moving through illness through snow flurry and sunshine to a place of recovery and love Threaded through this book are illuminating and courageous poems that settle and unsettle in equal measure They cluster moth like around spiritual and mythical figures unravelling and remaking themselves with needlework and yarn threaded along shorelines and under starry night skies Jenny Pagdin s skilful and attentive use of a variety of forms reflects multiple and jarring realities with poems dancing their own chaotic fragmented and strange glinting beauty towards resolution The Snow Globe