The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood Sarah Westcott I think I was one

I think I was one of the poets who became convinced of the need for change

it is rooted in Manchester

there is more to her than meets the eye

Frances Horovitz

but often as the greatest woman poet in world literature

The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood Sarah Westcott I think I was oneThe poets write with searing honesty about the incredible strength and capacity for self sacrifice demanded by motherhood, writing as parents as well as in relation to their own parents. The darkest thoughts of exhausted mothers are sensitively portrayed, as poets expose the weight of responsibility behind the hallowed state of motherhood, and question the expectations society places on mothers. This book gives voice to universal but usually silenced