All My Mad Mothers Faisal Darraj

All My Mad Mothers Faisal DarrajShortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize Jacqueline Saphras All My Mad Mothers explores love, sex and family relationships in vivacious, lush poems that span the decades and generations. At the heart of this collection of poems is the portrait of a mother as multitudes as a magician with a bathroom of beauty tricks, as necromancer, as glamorous fire starter, trapped in ever decreasing circles and, above all else, almost impossible to grasp. With an

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short fiction and reviews have been published in literary magazines such as Succour

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Get Thee to a Nunnery

"Crime writing with a harsh edge

Michael Baron initiated the major Words By The Water Cumbrian Literature Festival in 2001

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and uncertainty in later experience

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