Temper

Phoebe Walker is an award-winning poet originally from Northumberland in the North of England, and now living in Manchester. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Animal Noises, received an Eric Gregory Award in 2021 and she also won the Mairtin Crawford Poetry Award in 2019 and a Northern Writers' Award for poetry in 2012. Phoebe's poetry has been published in Ambit, Under the Radar, The Tangerine, The Moth, Magma and was included in the Northern Poetry Library's 'Poem of the North' exhibition. Temper is her debut novel.

'Temper explores loneliness, alienation and transience in lucid, gorgeous prose. Walker's observations on the nature of work and the hollowness of modern life are stark and brilliant; a must-read for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider' —Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater and Milk Teeth'An intimate portrait of a young woman dislocated and adrift, Temper is at once subtle and full of force, deeply relatable and coolly unfamiliar' —Chloe Ashby, author of Wet Paint'Phoebe Walker's prose is subtle, incisive, and rich in dark surprises. In Temper, she provides an unsettling and highly intimate account of loneliness, disconnection and malignant relationships. This is a quietly devastating debut' —Naomi Booth, author of Exit Management and Animals at Night'Poignant' —The Indiependent