poetry pamphlet
WITNESS, JONATHAN KINSMAN
The style of the poetry pamphlet witness is reminiscent of Oswald’s Book of Hours by Steve Ely. Ely forges Anglo Saxon legend, medieval English and Biblical language with contemporary characters from West Yorkshire: Kinsman reimagines the stories of the apostles as 21st century people living in Britain. There is a portrait poem here for each…
Saboteur Awards Nomination for ‘Echolocation’ and other project and Dragon’s Den style novel pitching
Regular readers will have noticed that there has been a sizable gap in the weekly mothering blogs. I can’t really apologise as the reasons are mostly exciting professional ones but I can promise a piece on the topic of religious mother soon. In the meantime I thought I’d fill you in on some of the…
Margaret Garner – Protective Mother/Murdering Mother
Few people would disagree if I said that there could not be a worse mother than a mother who murders her children. A mother’s job is to protect, surely? But what if you have been bred into slavery and have children, quite possibly by your white master who rapes you whenever it is convenient to…
Michelle Pfeiffer – adoptive mother
We all know that Madonna and Angelina Jolie have adopted children but many other female celebrities such as actors Jamie Lee Curtis and the focus of this week’s blog Michelle Pfeiffer have done so too. Pfeiffer’s career is well-known so I’m not going to focus on that here, except for a little confession to say…