Restricted Movement (Paperback)

This explosive collection of poems documents twelve months during the pandemic as Traci O'Dea, living in the Channel Islands, supports her artist father who is overseas in Baltimore struggling with dementia and drug addiction.

Interspersed with the frantic cycle of overdoses, escapes from care, disappearances, and international phone calls are moments of reflection on her father's artwork and her seaside surroundings.

The collection’s structure fluctuates between established poetic forms, loosely iambic letters, and blank verse. In addition to Traci’s poems, the book includes 24 paintings by her father, outsider artist Tommy O’Dea.