Bethany Handley’s debut pamphlet Cling Film explores existing as a young Disabled woman in Wales in a crossfire of ableism. She asks the reader to travel in her skin, laying bare the barriers that disable people and saying it how it is. Inaccessibility and exclusionary design affect disabled people, not their bodies.

A deep connection to nature is ever present in these poems. Swifts wheel across the sky, acorn shells crunch beneath tread, waves break against the shore and a wheelchair user leaves proud tyre tracks in the sand.

Set in familiar Welsh places – from Cardiff ’s Heath Hospital in South Wales to Mynydd Mawr in Eryri, North Wales – these witty, perceptive poems challenge myths about disability in ways that are striking, astute and devastatingly exact.