Overview

For readers of confessional poetry, heartbreak prose, and raw emotional memoirs, The One Before The First is a raw, unflinching collection about first love, obsessive longing, and the grief that follows it. Through bruised reflections and visceral imagery, it traces the slow descent of someone awakening to intimacy-only to unravel in the aftermath of a not-quite relationship. This is the haunting of almosts: the texts that meant too much, the nights you couldn't sleep, the illusion of being seen, and the brutal clarity that follows disillusionment. A poetic autopsy of someone who gave you fragments, yet somehow still took everything. For anyone who's ever loved the one who came before the first.

Full Product Details

9781068462900

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Kerry Burton-Galley is a working-class writer, artist, and animal rights activist from York. She has lived with M.E. since childhood, and missed most of her formal education-but she has been writing and drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. It's how she learned to make sense of her feelings, and of a world that often felt unforgiving.Kerry writes with emotional depth, grit, and unflinching honesty-there are no frills in her work. Her poetry and prose explore trauma, mental health, grief, and the beauty found in small moments. Always observant, often dark, and sometimes unexpectedly funny, her writing is a voice for the outsider, the overthinker, and the emotionally bruised.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available