Mother | Line by Ankita Saxena AK Blakemore angels appear

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who recently unveiled a blue plaque on Mew's childhood house in Doughty Street

Jodie Hollander’s beautifully-structured and compelling debut follows the story of a daughter’s maturing relationship with her mother

Creating Contemporary Poetry (2013)

and a sequence of poems voicing John Clare’s experience of poverty and dispossession during the enclosures

Mother | Line by Ankita Saxena AK Blakemore angels appearWhat do we inherit from our mothers? From our grandmothers? From the legacy of colonisation and empire? Mother Line, Ankita Saxenas debut poetry collection, charts lineage in all its forms, delving into female rage, compassion, and endurance. Drawing on the authors British Asian heritage and experiences growing up as a woman in an increasingly violent world, this collection weaves together the personal and the political in ghazals, odes and specular