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Lucy Hurst's Gut Feeling is a fiercely intelligent and formally dynamic collection that interrogates illness, vulnerability, and survival through a visceral, unflinching poetics. Writing from the embodied experience of chronic illness, Hurst dismantles medical and emotional discourse with sharp lyric clarity and experimental control. The poems move between clinical spaces and intimate interiors, balancing detachment and affect, irony and sincerity. What emerges is a poetics of persistence that resists metaphor and easy resolution, asserting complexity in the face of reductive narratives. This is a work of deep acuity-disruptive, grounded, and bracingly alive.
About the author
Lucy Hurst is a poet and writer, with a PhD in creative writing from York St John University. Her work often discusses chronic illness and disability through experimental forms. Her first pamphlet, Modern Medicine, was published by Fly on the Wall in 2021, and its title poem was shortlisted for the 2020 Bridport Prize.
