Well Done, You Didn't Die by Max Wallis Russell Jones Victoria Richards asks ‘What are

Victoria Richards asks ‘What are girls made of

a teenager who has leapt from a railway viaduct

to the new poems embodying the recapitulations of old age

from a period late in her life when she was often ill

The book seeks catharsis

Well Done, You Didn't Die by Max Wallis Russell Jones Victoria Richards asks ‘What areIn Well Done, You Didn't Die, Max Wallis returns with a searingly intimate and formally inventive pamphlet that refuses erasure. From the aftermath of breakdown to the first electric flickers of healing, these poems map the brutal, brilliant terrain of survival; mental illness, addiction, queerness, love, sex, shame, and the fragile dignity of staying when staying is a whole new thing entirely. Wallis writes with wit, lyric fire, and radical candour.