Winner of the Silver Medal for Poetry at The BookFest Awards (Fall 2022), Threadbare is a poetic journey across the decades of a woman’s life—from the innocence of childhood to the fierce wisdom of age. With visceral imagery, aching honesty, and lyrical grit, Adanna Moriarty pulls readers through memory, grief, motherhood, addiction, love, and spiritual reclamation. This isn’t just a collection of poems—it’s a life laid bare.
Moriarty stitches together fragmented years with the thread of truth, allowing each piece—each scar, loss, and moment of wonder—to breathe and speak. At the heart of Threadbare lies the stunning section devoted to the death of her father during the pandemic—poems that hum with sorrow, rage, and grace.
Poignant, rebellious, and profoundly moving, this book is for anyone who has ever searched for meaning in their mess, light in their darkness, and healing in their words.
