Joy Is My Middle Name by Sasha Debevec-McKenney (PRE-ORDER)

DATE OF RELEASE: 3 JUL 2025

Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease. Humble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe – the collection feels like a conversation with your greatest friend, over the best dinner.

Full of stories, character, awkward silence, relatable sentiment; the buzz of perfect moments are funnelled onto the page.

Paperback 
Publication: 3 Jul 2025, Fitzcarraldo 
ISBN: 9781804271872

Extent: 86 pages