Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit by Jen Campbell
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023 Laurel2022 Arcadia grows ever more distant

Arcadia grows ever more distant

beings and geographies

An motive and darkly comic full collection of ecopoetry from a former Environment Reporter for BBC Wales

forging from trauma and poverty ‘a pulsing shield of anger’

Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit by Jen Campbell<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b> Laurel2022 Arcadia grows ever more distantPlease Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologising trauma. Jen Campbell writes of Victorian circus and folklore, deep seas and dark forests, discussing her own relationship with hospitals both as a disabled person, and as an adult reflecting on childhood while going through IVF. Please, Do Not Touch This Exhibit is Jen Campbell's second collection. Her first book length collection, The Girl Aquarium