Fully Clothed and So Forgetful

Winner of the 2018 Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry

Fully Clothed and So Forgetful is an intimate, intelligent first book by Hannah Mettner. Moving through love, motherhood, sexuality, family and anxiety, these poems infuse universal themes with wit and sudden, even shocking beauty.

'This book will push you down a marble staircase, and then cheerfully bring you a couple of aspirin.’ —Hera Lindsay Bird

Hannah Mettner is a Wellington-based poet from Gisborne. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Sport, Turbine and Cordite. With Morgan Bach and Sugar Magnolia Wilson, she co-founded Sweet Mammalian, an online poetry journal, in 2014. Her second book is Saga (2023).

Cover image: Valerie Bos