Unmothered Olivia Milburn Originally published in 2012

Originally published in 2012

With the soft touch of an accomplished writer

--   RTA Parker was born in 1978

there is firm resistance

incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory description and imagines how the whole collection might have started

Unmothered Olivia Milburn Originally published in 2012A Debut collection from Black British poet A J Akoto. When is a mother a myth, and when is she a monster? In an intimate and unflinching collection, A J Akoto tracks the complex bind of mother daughter relationships. Through separation and attempts to mend, longing, and the fluidity of myth story telling in defining histories and identities, she collapses the elision between womanhood and motherhood daughterhood, bringing to the forefront that which