Chapbook
A collection of poems about love, loneliness, small talk, and anxiety.
wholehearted abounds with elegant wordplay and creative structures underpinning poems that illuminate moments of humour, darkness, and everyday life, building a collection that sings with Brianne's clear poetic voice.
- Jessica Bromley Bartram, creator of Ghost, Water, Kiss
Battye weaves pop culture and clever language into the poems in this collection with sincerity and conviction. Each poem is a delight; Battye is a poet to look out for.
- Erin Emily Ann Vance, author of The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon and Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers
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this is the ball that fell into the pond
a vanishing glimmer, dulled now…
In Crow & Cross Keys, August 2023.
is this where stars looked bigger
from the low branch that was easy to climb?
In Parentheses, Issue 12, Fall 2021.
it snowed so much in October and it stayed
so when you texted in December…
In No Contact, Issue 16, January 2021.
woke up one day and there they were:
torn through blades, bloody, twitching…
In antilang. no. 7, Summer 2020.
One porcelain cat begets more porcelain cats: the latest a stray…
In The Maynard, Fall 2018.
sternum-born pulse pushes
stilted ellipses of my own design…
In The /tƐmz/ Review, issue 3, Spring 2018.
Cross-legged in rows on sleeping bags. When asked, her Truths don’t excite…
In CV2, Hair Issue, Spring 2017