Boom!

by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Boom is Carolyn Jess-Cooke's second collection of poetry. It opens with the trope of the 'baby as a hand grenade' lobbed into the middle of a woman's life, scattering all, this book goes on to explore the many dilemmas of modern motherhood, taking to task the clich s of the 'working' vs. 'non-working' mother and deliberately unbalancing the 'work/life balance'. From free-verse riffs on essential moments of joy and blame, to artful sonnets on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781721750
• ISBN13: 9781781721759
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Seren Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 7.8"