These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout.

In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved.

Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author’s time as writer-in-residence there, this is a vivid exploration that is honest and searching and cuts to the very core of what it is to be alive.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• I’m Not a Fossil, You Are a Curio
• The Nineteen Thirties House
• Who Are You?
• On the Files
• The Bone Library
• The Truth is Old and It Wants to Go Home
• Summerhall Almanac
• The Good Stuff
• I Know Who I Am
• Dear Beetle of Our Lady
• Workshop, Day One
• St Mary’s Street
• 9A
• Digital Bones
• Fir Tom Leonard
• House With a Porch of Four Seasons
• Even When You Don’t Think You Are
• Who Did Duchamp?
• It Was an Ex-Council House on the Sea Wall, Graffiti All Over It
• I Told Her
• I Was Talking to Will
• Mary Dick
• Monkey Love Experiment
• Morning Rituals
• One Day We Notice the Way Our Partner Eats and Are Irritated Beyond All Belief
• Good Art
• Your Sexts Are Shit
• Pale Blue Eyes
• The Daily Death
• Penrose Stairs
• It’s After All of Us
• Social Ouija
• When the Reptiles Came
• The Australian
• The Death of Compliments
• The Devil
• The Expectations of Others
• The Pivot
• Tim Hecker
• Tattooed Man
• So
• A note on the author