Abstract

"What's Lost Already" is a collection of lyric and narrative poems and two stark one-act plays concerned with love, loss and a sense of home. The manuscript explores relationships between lovers and families, suggesting that one's sense of self is tied to a sense of home and that the frequently linked losses of love and home inevitably change the self. This work investigates the interstices; the poems and plays are often set in in-between spaces (cars and half-built houses). From a narrative perspective, the manuscript begins with the end and traces back through to the beginning. Taken together, the poems and plays ultimately affirm the value of individual identity.