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Book · 2024
No Credit River
Composed in spare, intimate prose poetry, this hybrid memoir and autofiction traces a six-year period marked by profound heartbreak, the grief of a lost pregnancy, queer relationships, pandemic isolation, and a reckoning with the creative instinct.
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Rich with fierce intelligence and a deep intimacy, Whittall’s sequence of diary-poems unfold and meander, and there’s an ability that I admire about her (or her narrator, alternately) ability to be present, whether discussing the wish to possibly have a baby, the devastation of a break-up, or seeing an elk outside her window at Banff Writing Studio, all while allowing the blend of daily life and writing life to shape and inform.
rob mclennan on rob mclennan’s blog No Credit River deserves all the credit for not just encapsulating the complexities of queer relationships, bisexuality, middle age, or for writing a successful ‘poetry-prose memoir’ hybrid, but for making heartbreak real and anxieties that often get hushed apparent: things that make human beings human, and sad, and vulnerable in tender, moving poems that demand rereading.
Chris Banks on The Woodlot In intimate vignettes that weave back and forth through time, the memoir No Credit River covers the aftermath of a life-altering breakup, addressing themes of queer relationality and sexuality, aging, pregnancy, and loss with intelligence, wit, and devastating candor.
Bella Moses on Foreword Reviews
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