"It startled him to see me
amongst the daylit rooms,
the furniture, intact.
He thought a woman
reached madness and stopped."
We're so excited that our very own Meg (of Meg's Monday Muse) is publishing her debut collection with Broken Sleep Books.
Bertha Comes Down is steeped in metamorphosis, haunting, and quiet resistance. Drawing on myth, the gothic, and the occult, Megan Pattie explores the thresholds between madness and recovery, body and landscape, self and spectral other. Whether invoking foxes, gorgons, or isolation tanks, the poems assert a lucid, unsettled presence, offering neither resolution nor retreat, but a deepened sense of psychic and poetic agency.
"Nobody writes like Megan Pattie. Bertha Comes Down is a deeply affecting and utterly shattering collection that came to me at the moment I needed it most. This poet blends an effortless mist of gothic with her signature flare for a stirring and savage emotional pulse... This body of work is breathtaking, and everyone should read it." — Lucy Rose
Out now! Order *exclusively signed* copies of Bertha Comes Down here, with 25% off for PBS Members.