Pretend You Don’t Know Me brings together in one volume the best of Finuala
Dowling’s funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning
collections, with a section devoted to new poems.
This new collection contains her iconic poem ‘To the doctor who treated the
raped baby and who felt such despair’ as well as Dowling’s tragi-comic cycle of
poems on the theme of her mother’s dementia, and the hugely popular poems
‘Butter’ and ‘The abuse of cauliflowers’. At the heart of the book are the funny
and poignant connections we make with other people, and the lifelong effort to
stay whole.
‘Pretend You Don’t Know Me, by South African Finuala Dowling, is a witty and
wise collection of new and selected poems. Her sequence about her mother’s
dementia is very touching. Elsewhere, these vital works will have you crying with
laughter.’ – Jackie Kay, The Guardian (Books of the Year 2018)
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