The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts

Emma Dai'an Wright, Rachel Piercey

• Publisher: The Emma Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781910139660
• eBook ISBN: 9781912915019
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

At one remove from parental authority, aunts play a crucial role in the upbringing of children across the world. This anthology puts these women in the spotlight and explores what it means to be – and feels like to have – an aunt, historically and today. Some aunts are biological, some are chosen, but all have an impact on the way we learn to move through the world. Poets in this volume tell stories of glamorous confidants, akin to older siblings, and of older women, tough and worldly-wise, who offer their nieces and nephews a different perspective on life. Above all, the book restores their centrality to young people's development and to family life.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Other Titles from the Emma Press
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Travelling with Isaac
• The things they wrote
• Sudbury Lunch
• The Butcher's Diamond
• A Cuddle of Aunts
• Great-Aunt Rose
• Curfew
• A Half-Cut Sestina For My Long-Dead Devonshire Great-Aunt Eva Who Was No Great Drinker That I Know Of But Who Partook Of When Feeling Came
• Betsey Trotwood sets the record straight
• Aunt Amy's Parasol
• Auntie Peg
• Tailors
• Jon Snow and the Joyces
• Aunt Syl
• She tells her nephew he's mad to get more tats
• My Favourite Aunt
• The Sex Lives of Aunts
• Coal Tar
• Survivors
• What Will Your Sims Do Now?
• Broken Biscuits
• Aunty
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing
• For the Aunts of Eighties Metal
• Auntie Australia
• My oddest aunt
• Sister
• Holiday in Clacton
• My Colourful Aunt Rose
• The Alphabet Aunties
• Familiar
• From the Duck-Egg Blue Kitchen
• Auntie Bob's Feet
• I sometimes hear her voice brekking
• On becoming an aunt
• Aunt Anna
• Acknowledgements
• About the poets
• About the editors
• About the Emma Press
• Also from the Emma Press