Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain: extract from ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’

Foamy white waves splash above dark water.

Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain

Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at
Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of two books of poetry,
Retroviral* (Veer, 2018) and {Coteries} (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017),
and the co-author of House of Mouse with SJ Fowler (Knives Forks and Spoons
Press, 2017). Her critical work includes two monographs, The Feminist Fourth
Wave: Affective Temporality
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Queer
Troublemakers: Poetics of Flippancy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her debut novel Bone
Horn
was published in June 2025 with Cipher Press.

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