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Fiona Purves

In Three Poems

All My Mad Mothers by Jacqueline Saphra Seren and the place this hasJacqueline Saphras All My Mad Mothers explores love, sex and family relationships in vivacious, lush poems that span the decades and generations. At the heart of this collection of poems is the portrait of a mother as multitudes as a magician with a bathroom of beauty tricks, as necromancer, as glamorous fire starter, trapped in ever decreasing circles and, above all else, almost impossible to grasp. With an emphasis on the cultures of the different