Joy Is My Middle Name Cumbria & Lake District When an old friend invites

When an old friend invites the couple up to the Scottish Highlands for an extended break

In 27 stories

South of the River Lot

1924 George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine

Joy Is My Middle Name Cumbria & Lake District When an old friend invitesAuthor: Debevec McKenney, Sasha Poetry Published on 3 July 2025 by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom. Paperback 86 pages 134 x 198 x 13 164g Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease.