Administer the Laughing Gas
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publication day september 26th

publication day september 26th

"Inventive, vivid, dreamlike yet unflinching and full to burst with startling images and achingly beautiful language. This is a book that invites new ways of seeing grief, loss, trauma, motherhood and the body with candour, vulnerability, personality and hope. An important and compelling work on the complex journey of survival."

- Cecilia Knapp.

"This is how grief becomes a stained glass window: beautiful, reflective, imagistic and somehow holy. Gorgeous and terrifying. Read it."

- Joelle Taylor

Hayley Frances' debut collection Administer the Laughing Gas, VERVE Poetry Press, is an an example of grief in translation. Each poem is an unfiltered documentation of a bereaved mothers survival, presenting ethereal realisations of birth trauma, grief, body autonomy, and ritual.

This collection is the beginning of an awakening that presents the reality of loss through poems that powerfully translate a mother's emotional strife alongside her lived experience. 

I’m a POET. 
My work explores the psychology of creative writing & its potential as a therapeutic medium.