Can’t wait for your next collection, Kim. You've just reminded me of how, when my children were small, I had a network of friends - new mothers I'd met at ante-natal classes or playgroups - and we would always, all of us, recount our birth stories that helped us bond and to know there wasn’t a single one of us who had all the answers. And I love your gazelle poem!
Can really relate to the idea of circling around and around a subject. I need to explore subjects in my work from many, many different perspectives (self-perspectives - myself in different incarnations, different parts of my life) in order to feel satisfied. I can't wait for the next collection!
Thank you for sharing your conversation with Annemarie Ní Churreáin - spot on about performing closure (ugh). Circling around and back and seeing the same ground anew makes perfect sense. Rather than striking out like some imperial explorer to conquer new land ...
Can’t wait for your next collection, Kim. You've just reminded me of how, when my children were small, I had a network of friends - new mothers I'd met at ante-natal classes or playgroups - and we would always, all of us, recount our birth stories that helped us bond and to know there wasn’t a single one of us who had all the answers. And I love your gazelle poem!
Thanks Hilary, I don't know when you last heard the gazelle poem but it has probably changed since then. It's been a slippery one to pin down!
Can really relate to the idea of circling around and around a subject. I need to explore subjects in my work from many, many different perspectives (self-perspectives - myself in different incarnations, different parts of my life) in order to feel satisfied. I can't wait for the next collection!
How exciting. I'm thinking about my births, too. And using the experiences to write about other women's.
Can't wait for the next one x
Thank you for sharing your conversation with Annemarie Ní Churreáin - spot on about performing closure (ugh). Circling around and back and seeing the same ground anew makes perfect sense. Rather than striking out like some imperial explorer to conquer new land ...
Exactly Jay :) hurrah for looping, circling and meandering in poetry