Shedding

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In his debut poetry collection Rhys Daly urges the reader to confront discomfort and embrace the things we fear to see what may be beyond them.</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Shedding </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>asks what parts of ourselves are truly ourselves and what parts are carefully constructed to defend us against external and internal pressures. It tells a story of someone breaking open his rigidly constructed mindset examining a home that's suddenly begun to feel foreign revisiting memories he has tried desperately to forget and discovering what they can teach about trauma and healing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through conversational free verse and visceral surrealist imagery </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Shedding </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>invites you on a journey of deconstruction and reconstruction of self grudges the reliability of memory and what we learn when we face the things we've left behind.</span></p>