Wild/Hurt
Wild/Hurt by Meg Ford, published by Button Poetry on June 3, 2025, is a 96-page collection that explores the journey of trauma recovery through interactive poetics. This work invites readers to navigate multiple paths that reflect the choices and struggles faced by survivors of sexual abuse, making the abstract concept of healing tangible and relatable.
In Wild/Hurt, readers will find a deeply personal exploration of memory and healing, resonating with many who have experienced similar hardships. The collection addresses themes of queerness and disability while celebrating the complexities of personhood and resilience. Each reading offers a unique experience, revealing new layers of meaning and insight into the intimate aspects of survival and self-love.
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Wild/Hurt by Meg Ford takes the abstract ‘journey’ of trauma recovery and makes it concrete with interactive poetics. The reader can follow multiple paths that mirror the choices, experiences, and struggles one makes when reclaiming themselves in the face of sexual abuse. While being intensely personal, Wild/Hurt moves resonantly through memory and healing in a way that can speak to many survivors. Through its hardships and suffering, this collection comes to realize and love the intimate parts of itself. Ford’s work encompasses a survivor’s entire personhood–growing from their trauma, discovering and celebrating queerness, and living and loving with disability.
Wild/Hurt is a rich, heartfelt collection that makes the reading an experience, telling a new, remarkable story with each reread.
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