Poetry | Georgia Francis

Fainting Girl

Publisher: Quiet Island

ISBN: 978-1-912917-58-7

Publication Date: 11 March 2025

Print Length: 108

Language: English

Fainting Girl is the debut poetry collection from Georgia Francis. It explores themes of adolescence, chronic illness, disability, love, relationships, and sexuality. Fainting Girl received a 5-star rating from Reader Views.

Fainting Girl features ‘They Call Me Raggedy Ann’, the inspiration for Erin Hephzibah’s original song ‘Raggedy Ann’ featured on Harebrained (EP) and played on BBC Radio Scotland. Included poems ‘Hallucinations’, ‘They Call Me Raggedy Ann’, and ‘I Forgot to Read the Warning Label’ were published in literary magazine Wishbone Words.

Fainting Girl explores themes of medical trauma, ableism, sexual dysfunction, homophobia, and suicidal ideation. If you have been affected by these issues and need support, please visit the support page.

Fainting Girl is available to purchase at the store or Lighthouse Bookshop in Edinburgh and Good Press in Glasgow.

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Reviews

"Francis shares her deeply personal life through poetry about living with disability and the limitations that follow her from adolescence onward. Anyone who loves poetry, who lives with any kind of limitation, or who seeks to understand such experiences on a deeper level will absolutely love and cherish this collection of poems in Fainting Girl by Georgia Francis." - Sonia Vazquez, Reader Views

"Georgia’s poetry is a great read and the themes and metaphors in each poem are very vivid and unique. My favourites are ‘To Live in the World’, 'Seventeen’, ‘They call me Raggedy Ann’, ‘Of the Sea’, and ‘Whispers’. The connections between nature, emotions, growing up, sexuality, and disability in her poems create beautiful imagery for expressing different aspects of these." - Reader on StoryGraph

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