Books
Primers Volume Eight
Nine Arches Press, coming 6 August 2026
My debut pamphlet Familiar will be included in the 2026 volume of Nine Arches’ acclaimed Primers series.
Selecting Editor Laurie Bolger:
“Rachel's writing holds wildflowers, bodies, ghosts and inherited stories, they all sit side by side and whisper something to us so the everyday becomes mythic and the mythic becomes startlingly intimate. There is something amazingly paw-like about her work. It’s tender but never tame. It scratches and digs. Rachel writes with a rare honesty about womanhood, inheritance, desire and memory whilst asking difficult questions around the stories we inherit about ourselves and the physical bodies we live and love in.”
There Is No Word Alive For What I Am
The Emma Press, coming March 2027
My debut collection, There Is No Word Alive For What I Am, will be published by The Emma Press in Spring 2027.
From the press release:
‘I wrote this collection as a handbook for unruly women who feel too much, willing them to see the power in their messier emotions: desire, grief, frustration, love.
I can’t think of a better home for this debut collection than the Emma Press, who take risks and champion their writers with such respect and generosity. I’m incredibly grateful they’ve taken it on and hope it will find its place on the bookshelves and bedside tables of readers who most need it’.
From Emma Press Director, James Trevelyan:
‘We’re excited to be growing our Poetry Collections list with a third title in as many years, and thrilled that Rachel Jeffcoat is joining the Emma Press stable. Rachel’s work is sonic, clear-eyed and anthemic, and There Is No Word for What I Am a debut of sparkling light - a full-throated song to life and hope’.