Description
Forthcoming Fall 2025.
A testament to the strength of women, Both True invites readers to embrace the messy, the beautiful, and the brutal.
With an unflinching voice, Percy dives into the realities of being a wife and mother, in the face of societal expectations, mental health struggles, and the state of the world. Through lovely, lush craft, Percy’s haunting collection details the unspoken and taboo truths of modern motherhood.
Both True is for anyone who has ever felt the weight of trying to be everything to everyone while holding onto who they are at their core.
Awards
2024 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest Runner Up
Praise for Kristina Percy
Precise and poignant, stunning yet soft, Both True is full of poems that you’ll chew on for days.
– Joy Sullivan, Instructions for Traveling West
In poems that ache and dazzle, Kristina Percy probes the complexity of parenting, marriage, and family against the backdrop of depression, war, and climate crisis. She reveals the raw edge of motherhood with refreshing honesty: “In your smallest months I want to throw you from every window/But I’m lucky: anything will stop me.” Although Percy’s poems travel jagged terrain, she finds beauty in unlikely places: pine beetles “eating the forest blue” and the “tongue & tripe/snapped bone, split shell” of her Oma’s cooking. A brilliant debut, Both True is a book I will return to savor again and again.
– Rebecca Jamieson, The Body of All Things
About Kristina Percy
Kristina Percy (she/ her) lives with her husband & two young children on Vancouver Island, BC in the traditional territories of the Ligwiłda’xw people. Neither of her degrees have anything to do with creative writing. Her work has… MORE
