Books
There Is No Word Alive For What I Am - OPEN FOR PREORDER NOW
My debut collection, There Is No Word Alive For What I Am, will be published by The Emma Press in Spring 2027.
From the publisher:
‘There Is No Word Alive For What I Am is a handbook for unruly women, with poems leaning unashamedly into desire, grief, rage, and the freedom that comes from honouring the weirdest parts of the self. Cold bus stops and sleepless nights hold surprising, surreal and tender moments of illumination – the spring light speaks, Hilary Mantel comes to visit, and euphoria is halloumi fries on a garage forecourt. Rachel Jeffcoat’s debut collection is a full-throated song to life and hope.’
The Emma Press, coming March 2027
Primers Volume Eight
Nine Arches Press, July 2026
My debut pamphlet Familiar was published as part 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.”