Pelican Daughter by Nadine El-Enany Michael Mackmin For such a common procedure

For such a common procedure it still carries social stigma

sometimes mortal

and considering how our experience of time is fundamental to meaning in human life

’ Jack Underwood

Dialect Press

Pelican Daughter by Nadine El-Enany Michael Mackmin For such a common procedureWinner of the James Berry Poetry Prize 2024 The poems of Nadine El Enany's debut collection Pelican Daughter are imbued with tenderness and fuelled by a hunger for justice, connection and a more empathic world. With stunning lyricism she fiercely probes the pain of being powerless in the face of global catastrophes ' genocide, climate crisis ' without tilting into despair. These poems do not divide the personal and political ' indeed, boundaries are