Healing the Pack Franz Hodjak Poetry is an act of

Poetry is an act of truthful speech

exerting a softly fragmentary style that underpins Alice’s vacillations

A mix of dreamy fantasy and scientific fact

There is grief here

Healing the Pack Franz Hodjak Poetry is an act ofHealing the Pack is a book of retrieval. These are poems on the hunt for language to speak of intergenerational resilience and the power offered up by ancestors and perceptive children. Born out of working class life in a coalmining community, the work explores unsilencing. It honours those who speak through the gaps of their suffering to share their strengths. The assembled poems, which took 17 years to write, are more than descriptions of recovery,