Makeover / Laurie Bolger

Intimate, warm, and with teeth clenching wit, Bolger turns the domestic into an epic.’ ~ Joelle Taylor

Makeover is a book dripping with nostalgia, cigarette ash and sour cream dip. Lit by too-close TV screens and too-bright calorie counters, Bolger’s poems explore growing up, differing bodies and societal expectations.

Writing in praise of mums, nans and sisterhood, this is a work bursting with strength, anger, love and, ultimately, hope. In a celebration of girls shaped by swimming baths and Working Men’s Clubs, friendship and family, Makeover contends with what we inherit and what we ought to pass on.

*From the Winner of the 2023 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2022 Moth Poetry Prize*

Cover by Amy Louise Evans

Page count: 28