Anyone can slip into the underworld of chronic illness – it takes a rare poet to keep singing from that place. Charting her descent into ‘hospital Hades,’ this Persephone refuses to fall silent, and goes on calling out the medical gods whose mistreatment keeps her ‘entombed in fluorescents.’ Harrowing, sharp-witted, tender, raw and necessary, this is an indelible account from a poet with the sheer nerve to keep testifying, even when ‘pain is at its zenith.’ Persephone’s Pancreas is a collection from a writer who deserves the title heroine. - Tracey Slaughter 

I always love hearing Ime’s words aloud at Ōtepoti Writers Lab. It’s wrong to say it’s a pleasure to read these words because this book contains so much pain. And yet there is also raw, proud beauty to be found in Persephone’s Pancreas.- Liz Breslin