Emily Perkovich’s brand new poetry collection, Godshots Wanted: Apply Within, is truly an exceptional read as she is an incredible writer exploring heavy and triggering themes in a respectful manner.
The stories are filled with intensity, flooded with raw and vulnerable content that pull on the reader’s heartstrings.
Documenting harsh realities through poetry, it’s clear the survivor mode is activated as her poetic tone grips the experiences to be brutally honest while transforming her life. She recognises the struggles and what still has a hold of her, yet never lets it overwhelm to exhaust her all over again.
As the book progresses, the tough reads of topics on sexual abuse, assault, addiction, and illness strickingly showcase these things are in our everyday life whether we choose to acknowledge it or not.
Godshots Wanted: Apply Within, is a phenomenal read embracing the effortless talents by Emily. She voices pain, she recognises the aches, she accepts the darkness in a form to move forward. It’s truly a moving read, granted at the beginning of the book there is a forward and trigger warning, she explores these stories in graphic detail that doesn’t romanticise the trauma.
The structure of the literature is exceptional with somewhat of a reassurance to all survivors that we are never alone.
Emily Perkovich is from the Chicago-land area. She is an Art Evaluator for Persephone's Daughters and she spends her free time in the city with her family. Her work strives to erase the stigma surrounding trauma victims and their responses. Her piece This is Performance-Art was a finalist for the 50th New Millennium Writings Award and she was featured in The Divine Feminist Anthology from Get Fresh Books Publishing. She has previously published with Wide Eyes Publishing, Sunday Mornings at the River, Coffin Bell Journal, and Awakened Voices among others. Her chapbook Expulsion was released in April 2020 with Witches N Pink and her novella Swallow is forthcoming with Pegasus Publishers. You can find more of her work on IG @undermeyou
Word by Danielle Holian