Cling FilmCling Film

"Bethany Handley's debut pamphlet Cling Film explores existing as a young Disabled woman in the crossfire of ableism. She invites the reader to travel in her skin, exposing the barriers that disable people with unfiltered honesty and wit. A deep connection to nature is ever present in these poems. Swifts wheel across the sky, acorn shells crunch beneath tread, waves break against the shore and a wheelchair user leaves proud tyre tracks in the sand. Set in familiar Welsh places--from Cardiff's Heath Hospital to Mynydd Mawr in Eryri, these witty, perceptive poems challenge myths about disability in ways that are striking, astute and devastatingly exact"--