This Will Be Good

by Mallory Tater

Mallory Tater's This Will Be Good tells the story of a young woman’s burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family relationships and friendships.

These poems deftly bear witness to the performance of femininity and gender construction to reveal the shrinking mind and body of a girl trying to find her place in the world, and whose overflowing adolescent hope for a future will not subside.

Genres: Poetry, Canada

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 9, 2018

Reviews

[Sally Elhennawy · Rating 5 out of 5]

STUNNING. What a gorgeous and heartwrenching collection to kick off my belated Sealey challenge (reading a poetry book a day in October- wish me luck!!). I love what Mallory does with words… and how special that I got to tell her so! Shoutout Sam for the rec 🫶🏽

[Sam Albert · Rating 5 out of 5]

A stunning collection of poems I haven’t revisited since they were first published. Mallory is my first cousin and I have been to the Point Robert’s cabin she writes so lyrically about throughout my childhood. Yet, I never caught the rhythm of the shorelines, let the geography of the land tango in my mind, with the clarity Mallory brings to these poems. As an English student so much of what I write is a grasp at the unattainable, attempting to discern what an author I will never be able to talk to really thought about the words they wrote down. This collection is interesting because I’ve known the poet my whole life, and yet, the poetry offers a vulnerability both profound and public. An insight that both exposes and abstracts. A stunning collection! (A deserving 5 stars but maybe I’m a bit biased 👀)

[Tara Borin · Rating 5 out of 5]

These poems of teenage girlhood, family, friendship, sexuality and eating disorders are written in a controlled, dispassionate voice, revealing the grit, discomfort and difficulty of the age.