
Parents
An Anthology of Poems by Women Writers
Enitharmon Press
Published on 1. October 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-1-900564-71-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Parents" includes poems about the writers' mothers, fathers, or both - their lives and their attitudes. Some of the poems celebrate good relationships, others explore complex or damaging ones. There are poems about parents aging and some about the reactions to their deaths. More specifically, a few of the writers focus on the experiences of parents (some of them refugees) in World War Two and in subsequent conflicts. The poems, by such writers as Jane Duran, U. A. Fanthorpe, Dorothy Nimmo, Carole Satyamurti, Anne Stevenson and Susan Wicks, are in a variety of styles and tones: angry, loving, reflective, conversational, passionate, humorous.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 139 mm
Weight
293 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-900564-71-7 (9781900564717)
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Myra Schneider was born in London in 1936 and grew up on the Firth of Clyde. She is the author of four poetry collections from Littlewood, three novels for children from Heinemann, and has three poetry collections published by Enitharmon: Exits, The Panic Bird and Insisting on Yellow. With John Killick she has written Writing for Self-Discovery (Vega, Chrysalis Books) which was re-published in 2002. Her book 'Writing My Way Through Cancer', was published by Jessica Kingsley in 2003. The book is her fleshed-out journal from the year 2000 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It includes poem notes and poems and a section of therapeutic writing ideas.