Jenni Fagan Books in Order

Fourteen-year-old Anais arrives at a home for young offenders with blood on her uniform and missing memories. As she forms bonds with fellow residents, she distrusts the adults watching her and fears an experiment is closing in.

Drawing together two earlier collections and newer work, Jenni Fagan traces twenty years of writing and life on the margins. Her surreal poems explore loss, recovery, hope, and defiance through a changing poetic voice.

As a catastrophic winter threatens Britain, a grieving man travels north to scatter his family’s ashes. In a Scottish caravan park, he joins a survivalist mother and her daughter as they prepare for the deepening freeze.

Jenni Fagan treats language as a form of magic in poems about lovers, cities, and political uncertainty. Portraits and spell poems explore the ways words can console, unsettle, or resist a world in upheaval.

The devil’s daughter arrives in Edinburgh to bear a powerful man’s child, setting a curse upon his tenement. Across decades, the building’s residents become entangled in its buried violence and the secret that binds their lives.

Written during a residency in an anatomical library, these poems consider identity, place, love, and exclusion. Jenni Fagan uses that setting to examine human experience and the physical and emotional realities of being alive.