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Mothersong
- Author
- Amy Acre
- Narrator
- Amy Acre
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 September 2023
- Run Time
- 1 hour 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
A lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood – the debut work of an endlessly inventive poet whose work 'fizzes with energy, physicality, and the levitating openness of song' (Rebecca Tamás)
**Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize**
**Selected as a book of the year by the Financial Times and Telegraph**
'An essential read, poignant, powerful and provocative. I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems' Salena Godden
Amy Acre’s debut collection is an unforgettable, unflinching excavation of motherhood, what it means to be a female artist, and what it means to be a poet with a deeply integrated community. This is a timeless work the like of which we haven’t seen enough of in the past, primed to last long into the future.
'Amy Acre is one of the best poets of her generation. Pure cinema, raw heart, and unparalleled technique. Read this' Joelle Taylor, winner of the 2021 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry
'Mothers, daughters, lovers, all the thrilling complexity of love and grief that the body must bear; these are poems which set the page aglow and make my heart spin' Liz Berry, winner of the 2018 Forward Prize for Poetry
Critics Review
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Mothersong is an essential read, it is poignant, powerful and provocative. I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems, this timeless vulnerability, this ripe truth, these pieces are beautiful, evocative, and everlasting
Salena Godden
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Amy Acre’s powerful collection explores contemporary parenthood and the memory of a childhood marked by grief ... These poems are graced by an exquisite diction and enlightening observation
Irish Times
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Acre’s debut collection, takes readers through the frightening, wearying, ecstatic experience of becoming a mother
Daily Telegraph
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Amy Acre is one of the best poets of her generation. Pure cinema, raw heart, and unparalleled technique. Read this
Joelle Taylor
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Amy Acre’s poems are electric. They crackle and spark with wild feeling, inventiveness and deep sensuality. Mothers, daughters, lovers, all the thrilling complexity of love and grief that the body must bear; these are poems which set the page aglow and make my heart spin
Liz Berry
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Expansive and risk-taking
Guardian
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This debut collection from the London-born poet is confident, witty and a little addictive. As the title suggests, these poems explore motherhood and mother loss, in verse that manages to be both playfully frenzied and movingly intimate.
Financial Times, Books of the Year
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Details
- Author
- Amy Acre
- Narrator
- Amy Acre
- Duration
- 1 hour 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 September 2023
- ISBN
- 9781526662149
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems, Modern and contemporary poetry / poems
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Mothersong written and read by Amy Acre.A lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood – the debut work of an endlessly inventive poet whose work 'fizzes with energy, physicality, and the levitating openness of song' (Rebecca Tamás)**Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize****Selected as a book of the year by the Financial Times and Telegraph**'An essential read, poignant, powerful and provocative. I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems' Salena GoddenAmy Acre’s debut collection is an unforgettable, unflinching excavation of motherhood, what it means to be a female artist, and what it means to be a poet with a deeply integrated community. This is a timeless work the like of which we haven’t seen enough of in the past, primed to last long into the future.'Amy Acre is one of the best poets of her generation. Pure cinema, raw heart, and unparalleled technique. Read this' Joelle Taylor, winner of the 2021 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry'Mothers, daughters, lovers, all the thrilling complexity of love and grief that the body must bear; these are poems which set the page aglow and make my heart spin' Liz Berry, winner of the 2018 Forward Prize for Poetry
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