#MOTH by Eleanor Holmes
#MOTH by Eleanor Holmes
pre-order, will ship by the end of March
2026//limited edition 60 copies//5.5×8, 33pgs
Eleanor Holmes (previously writing as Eliot North) is a neurodivergent mother-doctor-writer of prose, poetry and hybrid. Originally from Bristol in the UK, she has spent her life exploring different cultures and countries, loves to collaborate with other creatives and has a life-long obsession with illustration, printmaking and beautiful handmade books. She lives with her son and husband in Valencian Country, Spain, and works as an NHS GP in Weston-super-mare. Widely published in print and on-line, she was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2014 and shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2025. #Moth is her first hybrid collection.
"In #Moth, Eleanor Holmes' hypnotising hybrid of the medical and the magical, the author invites us to be curious, about bodies and personhood, about the constraint of expectations, about the clinical versus the vital, the unfamiliar. What transformation might occur when boundaries dissolve and we are no longer sure who is 'doctor', who is 'patient?'"
––Tania Hershman, author of 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir'
"I love this magical and unique collection. Eleanor Holmes is an exciting new voice in poetry and I am sure this pamphlet, a fascinating and powerful mix of moths and medicine, will establish her as a name to watch. She juxtaposes snippets of doctor/patient conversations with beautiful lyric poems focusing on moths in a wholly original and bold
way. The result is startlingly effective and thought-provoking."
––Carole Bromley, award winning poet, creative writing tutor and mentor, Poetry Society's stanza rep for York
"In #Moth, Eleanor Holmes takes the traditional doctor-patient mental health consultation and turns it twistways. On a locked ward an unusual woman talks to a psychiatrist who is constrained by the mental state examination, a structure that vastly underestimates her. As the doctor tries to understand why they can’t connect the way the textbooks say they should, Vadoma begins to reveal her true self. With this lyric collection of prose and poetry the author leaves us wondering how western medical models can ever hold any of us in all of our complexity and depth."
––Dr Rachel Ali, GP and GPC UK Representation Policy Lead, bibliophile and ceramic artist