“Never have I read a poetry collection quite like this! Attic Rain is artful, intimate, and original in its exploration of OCD. Each poem and illustration offers the reader palpable panic and delight.”
— Farzana Doctor, award-winning author of The Beauty of Us and You Still Look The Same

“Samantha Jones speaks with a strong new voice in these poems about her lived experience of neurodivergence, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and climate change, and the impact of a shifting world on all who rely on stability and patterns to retain a crucial feeling of safety. Self-reflective, wry, intelligent, and vulnerable, Attic Rain is a brave debut collection from a brilliant writer to watch.”
— Jenna Butler, award-winning author of Seldom Seen Road and Revery: A Year of Bees

“I could say you’ll return again and again to Attic Rain because in these poems Samantha Jones returns again and again to check that everything is ok. I won’t but if I did, it would reflect her deft wit and formal inventiveness. She writes with a lightness which belies the implicit pain of the experience of OCD. With self-awareness, energy and agency, she transforms anxiety-motivated repetition into the music of poetry and creates quirky diagrams which map the difficult routes of her OCD with insight. This is a book that isn’t afraid to record and appreciate the strange, challenging and absurd delight of being human.”
— Gary Barwin, award-winning author of Scandal at the Alphorn Factory

“Attic Rain is a raw poetic map, a song of compulsion, a charting of what it means to live in and see the world as someone called upon to check and then check again. If Psychiatry’s single greatest reference point, the DSM 5 Handbook, could have a heart, it would be Attic Rain. If Faculties of Medicine ever wanted to teach truly patient-centred caring, they’d use Attic Rain as a textbook. Attic Rain demands second looks, double and triple trips: this is poetry that wears thin a path in your carpet as you trace and retrace all the book has to offer.” — Sarah de Leeuw, award-winning author of Geographies of a Lover