The Bone Library

These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout.

In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved.

Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author's time as writer-in-residence there, this is a vivid exploration that is honest and searching and cuts to the very core of what it is to be alive.



Jenni Fagan is an award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, essayist and a playwright, and was writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. She is the author of The Panopticon (2012), The Sunlight Pilgrims (2015) and her first poetry collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was published by Polygon in 2016, followed by There's a Witch in the Word Machine (2018).



'Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life.'



'Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life'



'Excels in moments of tenderness, [and] tends to shine most in its wit'



'Stunning... the vocabulary alone is so vivid, so visceral, and we feel it in the poem that gives the book its title'



'A stunning new collection'



'As brilliant, as sensual, as vivid and as thought-provoking as all the rest of her poetry'



'Powerful and gritty writing that reflects many aspects of twenty-first century life'