Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie Faith Lawrence PBS Recommendation - Summer 2016

PBS Recommendation - Summer 2016

It tells the story of a father who worked on North Sea oil platforms and Omani oilfields

discovers the proper way to eat a banana

the purpose of which is to draw the reader closer to God by enabling a fuller experience of scripture

The 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize

Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie Faith Lawrence PBS Recommendation - Summer 2016Published 28th February 2026. Bertha Comes Down by Megan Pattie is a collection steeped in metamorphosis, haunting, and quiet resistance. Drawing on myth, the gothic, and the occult, Pattie explores the thresholds between madness and recovery, body and landscape, self and spectral other. Her verse is richly imagistic and finely wrought, moving through poems as incantations, narratives of possession, and shapeshifting lyric forms. Whether invoking