The Penny Dropping Spring26 ‘The author's wit and wisdom

‘The author's wit and wisdom deserve as wide an audience as possible

and-of course-talking as fast as you can

Estelle Birdy’s explosively original debut Ravelling channels the energies and agonies of young men let loose in the city

but also the communities that make it so special

what do we see

The Penny Dropping Spring26 ‘The author's wit and wisdomThe Penny Dropping offers an account of a cherished relationship from first meeting to eventual break up. Distance gives the writer a retrospective clarity from which she does not flinch despite its challenges (Look at me, laments the speaker in Pretty Woman, stepping back into the dress, pulling up the side zip, smoothing it down, as though thats all it took). But ultimately poems such as No Point Now undo their own argument that the penny has