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Baby X, Rebecca Ann Smith
Plaiting together the stories of Dr Alex Mansfield, Dolly, and Karen Frey, Rebecca Ann Smith’s Baby X tracks these women’s relationships with a human foetus as it develops in an artificial uterus. This is a novel about fertility treatment and its implications, about the danger of privatising health services and the ways in which a…
Why I’ve decided to write about books written by women
It is well-known that there are inequities for women at all stages of their writing careers. (This is valid for other groups but here I’m focussing on gender, although intersectionality will feature). Catherine Nichols found a scandalously more positive response when sending her novel out under a male pseudonym than when she attributed it to…
Collecting flowers
For the last two years I‘ve been working on longer pieces – putting the finishing touches to Empires of Clay and Echolocation, collaborating on the poems for the Altofts commission and the first incarnation of Corseted. More recently, I have completed another edit of my second novel. As a result I’ve written very few individual…
Not the right sort of voice
In 2014 I recorded two of my poems for poetry films. The Bristol-based film-maker Pru Fowler did a stunning job and we launched the films twice, once in her city and once in Leeds. Paisley Quilt was shown and reviewed on the Moving Words website and, since making it available online, we received many positive…