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THE EMMA PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF MOTHERHOOD
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
RRP £10 / ISBN 978-0-9574596-7-0
An anthology which celebrates and examines the complexity of emotion surrounding motherhood. The darkest thoughts of exhausted mothers are sensitively portrayed, as poets expose the weight of responsibility behind the state of motherhood, and question the expectations society places on mothers.
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IF I LAY ON MY BACK I SAW NOTHING BUT NAKED WOMEN
By Jacqueline Saphra, with colour illustrations by Mark Webber
RRP £12.50 / ISBN 978-1-910139-06-6
A sumptuous sequence of prose poems about the eccentric activities of parents and step-parents, as seen from a child’s perspective. The poems are illustrated with linocuts which celebrate real bodies and complement the vivid atmosphere.
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THE EMMA PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF AGE
Edited by Sarah Hesketh
RRP £10 / ISBN 978-1-910139-31-8
The Emma Press Anthology of Age is a collection of poems which challenge, celebrate and give age a voice, finding humour amidst heartbreak and comfort within pain.
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GOOSE FAIR NIGHT, by Kathy Pimlott
With an introduction by Clare Pollard
RRP £6.50 / ISBN 978-1-910139-35-6
A generous, jellied feast of a book, full of sharp-eyed yet tender details about friendship, family and familiarity. Pimlott ranges around the country to offer her warmly incisive take on living and loving in a gorgeous, unstable world.
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HOMESICKNESS AND EXILE
POEMS ABOUT LONGING AND BELONGING
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
RRP £10 / ISBN 978-1-910139-02-8
How does it feel to be a foreigner? Can you choose where you call home? Homesickness and Exile is a collection of poems about the fundamental human need to belong to a place.
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MALKIN, by Camille Ralphs
RRP £5 / ISBN 978-1-910139-30-1
Malkin brims and bubbles with the voices of those accused in the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612. Thirteen men and women – speaking across the centuries via Ralphs’ heady use of free spelling – plead, boast and confess, immersing the reader in this charged and dangerous time in history.
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