This Is All You Left Me With reveals an itch that needs to be scratched. remarkably tender and honest, you are transported to a painting in Welch’s mind sketched with pain, horror and darkness and brushed in shades of queerness, anger and empowerment. 

- Leo Mackrodt

 

Ozzy’s poetry is so raw and so real. I love their mixed use of pronouns and descriptors for the self/speaker, it really makes me feel seen as a genderqueer person, and I saw myself in so many of these poems. I too love like a museum and have written poetry about strangers. I believe that Ozzy is one of the up and coming voices of the younger generation, saying things that need to be said and telling stories that we’ve been hiding for ages. They are a force to be reckoned with and I picture their work being showcased alongside artists such as June Henry, I’ve Never Been Here Before, the Petrol Girls, Pee After Sex, Polly and the Amorettes, H. Melt, and Imogen Xtian Smith to list a few. They say what people need to see to recognise and change their own situations and inspire a blaze of passion in survivors who have their own stories to tell. Every work of theirs I’ve read so far has been impactful and I know that they will keep writing because that is the way of a wordsmith, and they will keep inspiring others to keep writing. Their work needs to be read!!

- Onyx Ocean, Author of Rainbow Flowers and Beyond The Back Door

 

Ozzy Welch’s ‘This Is All You Left Me With’ rigorously dissects trauma with such admirable precision, clarity, and bite.

There’s an unwavering strength in Welch’s words, they burn with a forest fire-like determination, and vividly utilise rage as a catalyst and vehicle for reclamation of narrative.

Haunting, arresting, brutal, and beautiful…

This powerful collection demonstrates how magic can occur when handing survivorhood a megaphone.

- Kane John Mills – Dance, Theatre, and Spoken Word Artist (Facilitator, Theatre Maker, Choreographer, Director, Performer, Writer, Dramaturg), and Access Consultant