Well Done, You Didn't Die by Max Wallis Russell Jones – Anthony Anaxagorou

– Anthony Anaxagorou

An elegy for a dead lover ends with a quiet recognition of everyday beauty – first sun streaming through the trees … a skylark in the near field

a teenager who has leapt from a railway viaduct

Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic

Well Done, You Didn't Die by Max Wallis Russell Jones – Anthony AnaxagorouIn Well Done, You Didn't 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.