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Poems for my son: There isn’t enough room in the universe by Naima Rashid

4th April 20226th April 2022  Naima Rashid

In these poignant poems, Naima Rashid explores the beauty and complexity of motherhood, and the passage of time as both parent and child grow together.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Motherhood, mothers, Naima Rashid, Poetry

‘On Toast Crumbs’ by Rachel Sills

29th April 202129th April 2021  Rachel Sills

A new mother feels her world contract down to the daily domestic rituals of cooking, cleaning and care-giving in Rachel Sills’ haunting flash fiction, ‘On Toast Crumbs’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: caregivers, children, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Mental Health, mental wellbeing, Motherhood, mothers

In conversation with award-winning author, Yvonne Battle-Felton: ‘Writing has made me a better, more empathetic person’

28th October 202020th December 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Award-winning author, Yvonne Battle-Felton, talks to Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about her exceptional debut, Remembered, her journey into academia and writing, her courageous women characters, and the inspiring maternal figures in her life.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: american history, BHM 2020, Black History Month, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Dialogue Books, George Floyd, Motherhood, mothers, Remembered, slavery, Yvonne Battle-Felton

‘Daykêmîn (Mother)’ by Rojbîn Arjen Yigit

25th October 202010th August 2022  Rojbîn Arjen Yigit

In Rojbîn Arjen Yigit’s powerful poem, ‘Daykêmîn (Mother)’, a child sits to dinner savouring her mother’s stories of when she first arrived in Britain and had to navigate many cultural and linguistic barriers.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Britain, discrimination, Kurdish, Kurdistan, Languages, Life in Languages, Motherhood, mothers, Multi-lingual, Poetry, Translation, Turkish

Women of the Night, Chapter 2: Nocturnal Mothering

23rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Looking at the work of photographer Ana Casas Broda, poet Muriel Rukeyser and musician Sherri Dupree-Bemis, Toni Roberts considers night from the perspectives of mothers, reflecting on their nocturnal experiences and reveries.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Ana Casas Broda, Breast feeding, Eisley, Kinderwunsch, Louder than a Lion, maternity, milk, Motherhood, mothers, Muriel Rukeyser, music, Night, Night / Shift, Photography, Poetry, Sherri DuPree-Bemis, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night

‘Gold Top’ by Rym Kechacha

21st September 202021st September 2020  Rym Kechacha

In this beautiful creative non-fiction piece, ‘Gold Top’, Rym Kechacha uses Remedios Varo’s painting, Celestial Pablum, to explore her own experiences of breastfeeding her baby daughter through the night.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Breast feeding, Celestial Pablum, creative non-fiction, dreams, Janet Kaplan, Motherhood, mothers, Night / Shift, painter, painting, Remedios Varo, Rym Kechacha, Sleep, Surrealism, unconscious
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