When I Think of My Body as a Horse
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When I Think of My Body as a Horse

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When I Think of My Body as a Horse

About this book

When I Think of My Body as a Horse centres around the experience of infertility and baby loss with a wider focus on body ownership and motherhood. The poems follow a totemic animal theme rooted in nature through which the poet explores her own experience of the loss of her daughter, an IVF baby, during an emergency c-section in 2010. The poems in When I Think of My Body as a Horse are about trauma, but they are also about recovery and the powerful, animal instincts that surround the act of creating a family, and how this is absorbed and accepted as part of a wider narrative when there is no 'rainbow baby' to add closure to the trauma of loss.

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Information

Publisher
Smith|Doorstop Books
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781912196401
eBook ISBN
9781912196500
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. For the Bridge Beneath Which I Became a Flock of Pigeons
  7. Broke Horse
  8. Tampon
  9. What I Learned from the Animals of My Childhood
  10. The Lemon Trees
  11. Love Letter to Scarborough on a Saturday Night
  12. In the Parole Office
  13. How You Fed Me Like a Wild Animal and I Let Myself be Tamed
  14. Sleep
  15. The Language of Pre-Motherhood
  16. Diagnosis
  17. Dildo-cam
  18. Embryo Transfer
  19. Two Week Wait
  20. This is Also True
  21. Nan Hardwicke Turns into a Hare
  22. Nesting
  23. My Favourite Memory
  24. Silverfish
  25. When Rabbits Die
  26. Tachycardia
  27. Albino Raven in the Wild
  28. Air
  29. The Circle of Sisters
  30. Hare Enters the Bedroom
  31. Schrödinger’s Baby
  32. Warning
  33. Revisiting the Hagfish
  34. Larvae
  35. When There Were More Bad Days Than Good
  36. Leaving for Work
  37. Hare
  38. The Hare Refuses to Speak
  39. The Leveret Dream
  40. What I Know
  41. The God of Small Things
  42. Sixth Birthday
  43. Rabbit Heart
  44. Seven
  45. Packing the Maternity Clothes Away
  46. The Last Egg Collection
  47. Eight
  48. Nine
  49. It is Not Like Being a Pioneer
  50. Nine Years of Mourning
  51. When I Think of My Body as a Horse
  52. The Rib Cage of a Horse
  53. Marathon Training
  54. Christmas Eve
  55. Self Portrait with Maritime Museum Mermaid, Hull
  56. Acknowledgements