This explosive collection of poems documents twelve months during the
pandemic as Traci O'Dea, living in the Channel Islands, supports her
artist father who is overseas in Baltimore struggling with dementia and
drug addiction.
Interspersed with the frantic cycle of overdoses, escapes from care,
disappearances, and international phone calls are moments of reflection
on her father's artwork and her seaside surroundings.
The collection's structure fluctuates between established poetic forms,
loosely iambic letters, and blank verse. In addition to Traci's poems,
the book includes 24 paintings by her father, outsider artist Tommy
O'Dea.