We’re continuing our 2026/27 pamphlet season with the debut pamphlet from trans singer and poet Jenny Scoones.

Suitcase Poems is available for pre-order now and will be sent out from 30th November. Come celebrate the book at our launch in London on the 1st December. Information can be found here.

See what advance readers have said about Suitcase Poems below:

Deftly balancing a crystalline clarity with a bright impassioned rawness – ‘still questions / chug up through my throat [. . .] I swallow the black fog’ – Jenny Scoone’s Suitcase Poems announces itself with an intensely readable fierce hope! 

Richard Scott

Suitcase Poems is a startling portrait of vulnerability and defiance, from a heart breaking under the weight of its cargo. In Jenny Scoones’ shimmering, sharp, witty, and fabulously filthy poems, each line break is a cliff edge dropping us into a new reality, a new crystalline image. Here is bathos, betrayal, and yearning. The loneliness of being your own perfect sun; the toll of masking neutrality, recasting pain as ornamental because sometimes it is safer to be misunderstood than to be seen and open.

Amy Acre

Suitcase Poems is a vital ooze of language. Scoones writes of a life lived being ‘Too, too much of everything’. She is Ariadne, yelling ‘Give me life! Life! In little orgasms’ to her surgical Bacchus. She is Sylvia Plath, patching a life ‘in blood and poetry’, dreaming in the hallway. She is Madonna, Antigone, Princess Margaret, the woman accused of witchcraft by the townsfolk. These poems are leaking and intense, full of risk and refusal, the dysphoria of desire and the constant movement of transformation, with linguistic poise, always. Reading Suitcase Poems, I found myself ecstatically (evangelically?) sending poems to my friends, my girls, saying holy shit you need to read this. Jenny Scoones is a Lady Lazarus for the 21st century. Holy shit, you need to read this.

Ellora Sutton

These are poems that sit cross-legged before leaping, mapping the tension between a trans body silenced and its hunger to leave itself, grabbing forward, to loudly burst. Scoones has written a book too generous and ‘too soft for this world’. You will love it.

Jaime Lock

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