Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022.

Shortlisted for the Emerging Writer of the Year in the Dalkey Literary Awards 2022.

Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2021.

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021.

An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021.

A Guardian Book of the Year 2021.

A White Review Book of the Year 2021.

A Sunday Independent (Dublin) Book of the Year 2021.

A Telegraph Best New Poetry Books for Christmas 2021.

Victoria Kennefick's daring first book, Eat or We Both Starve, draws readers into seemingly recognisable set-pieces - the family home, the shared meal, the rituals of historical occasions, desire - but Kennefick forges this material into new shapes, making them viable again for exploring what it is to live with the past - and not to be consumed by it.