Never have I read a poetry collection quite like thisAttic Rainis artful intimate and original in its exploration of OCD Each poem and illustration offers the reader palpable panic and delightFarzana Doctorawardwinning author ofThe Beauty of Us and You Still Look The Same

Samantha Jones speaks with a strong new voice in these poems about her lived experience of neurodivergence obsessivecompulsive disorder and climate change and the impact of a shifting world on all who rely on stability and patterns to retain a crucial feeling of safety Selfreflective wry intelligent and vulnerableAttic Rainis a brave debut collection from a brilliant writer to watchJenna Butlerawardwinning author ofSeldom Seen RoadandRevery A Year of Bees

I could say youll return again and again toAttic Rainbecause in these poems Samantha Jones returns again and again to check that everything is ok I wont but if I did it would reflect her deft wit and formal inventiveness She writes with a lightness which belies the implicit pain of the experience of OCD With selfawareness energy and agency she transforms anxietymotivated repetition into the music of poetry and creates quirky diagrams which map the difficult routes of her OCD with insight This is a book that isnt afraid to record and appreciate the strange challenging and absurd delight of being humanGary Barwinawardwinning author ofScandal at the Alphorn Factory

Attic Rainis a raw poetic map a song of compulsion a charting of what it means to live in and see the world as someone called upon to check and then check again If Psychiatrys single greatest reference point the DSM 5 Handbook could have a heart it would be Attic Rain If Faculties of Medicine ever wanted to teach truly patientcentred caring theyd use Attic Rain as a textbook Attic Rain demands second looks double and triple trips this is poetry that wears thin a path in your carpet as you trace and retrace all the book has to offerSarah de Leeuwawardwinning author ofGeographies of a Lover