Sike Ward

"Equal measures death doula and survival guide, Megan Foley has done the impossible in this badass debut collection. Meet some of the crew - Depression Monster, Lobotomy Horse, Joy Wizard. This is fearless writing that barbs into your skin while giving you a lick of your favorite flavor of ice cream. Urgent, absurdist, often hilarious, these poems pulse with mad canon energy, trans joy, and devastating hope. "Survival is hands and knees picking glitter out of the carpet." This book sparkles with the rug burn of hard-won lived experience of suicidality, medical gaslighting, and the daily work of staying alive."
-Stephanie Heit, Author of Psych Murders & The Color She Gave Gravity

"This is the kind of work that reminds me why I started not just writing poetry, but reading it. Sharp and smart and dark but with a strange deep love of the world underneath, I knew the first time I read Foley's work that I would become a lifelong fan."
-Erika T. Wurth, Author of White Horse & The Haunting of Room 904

"Sike Ward is written for the survivor unsure they've survived, the survivor unsure they want to, the survivor who didn't want to, and the survivor who hasn't yet."
-Jordan Wyberneit, Author of After The Anthropocene

Content Warning: Violence, Death, Suicide