Our relationship to our bodies is affected by many things including culture, religion, family, sex, hunger, pleasure and pain. This new anthology is inspired by a passionate desire to celebrate our bodies in a fully realised way, leaving Barbie's grotesque silent pliability in her box for good.
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[I've never seen a soul detached from its gender / but I'd like to (HORSE BY CHASE TWICHELL)]***
(@BloodaxeBooks, 28 August 2015, first published 23 April 2015, e-book, 176 pages, borrowed from @natpoetrylib via @OverDriveLibs)
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This is an incredible collection of poetry. I loved every poem in this collection. I'm familiar with the work of some of the poets such as Chase Twichell, Sinead Morrissey, Helen Dunmore and Selima Hill. There are also a slew of poets I've never heard of before including Ruth Aylett, Sarah Hymas, Kris Johnson and Eloise Williams. I loved every poem, each of them celebrating the good and bad things about being a woman. This is a collection I could read again and again. The best poems are The Mermaid in the Dime Museum by Alex Toms, Three Ways of Recovering a Body by Helen Dunmore, Underneath Our Skirts by Katie Donovan and Does My Bum Look Big in This? by Patricia Ace. This is a must-read poetry collection.