Moon MilkThrough pregnancy, birth and early childhood, Rachel Bowers poetry takes us on an unsentimental journey from womb to world. Along the way, she explores the largely unmapped territories of loss, bewilderment, shame, transformation and betrayal, and reclaims the intimate histories, mythologies and wisdom our bodies share. This thought provoking collection takes a frank, unflinching look at the joys and challenges of modern parenting, moving seamlessly

a praying mantis

and a writer who wrote in a variety of genres (speculative fiction

where wit is tinged with tragedy and vice versa

and was awarded the Viareggio prize

Following her parents’ divorce

Capel-y-ffin’s remoteness offered Gill time to develop his religious thinking and also to experiment sexually in a period in which he was intensely busy as an artist

When his wife returns to her parents house to have their second child

Philip Fried

and boatbuilder as well as blacksmithing

a miner tattooed by a working life spent underground

promises to rekindle interest in the work of this seminal poet

Beautifully-crafted and very moving