The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood #Translated alongside great tenderness

alongside great tenderness

Examination Centre and On Holy Week

an anthology

yet at the same time it’s a celebration of friends and companions

The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood #Translated alongside great tendernessThe 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