Well Done, You Didn't Die Simon Birch but it hasn’t been written

but it hasn’t been written yet

To celebrate its 21st year in publishing

sometimes they stand side-by-side

Ebtisam al-Mualla – 'A Dying Light'

Much admired by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott

Well Done, You Didn't Die Simon Birch but it hasn’t been writtenIn Well Done, You Didnt 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.