All My Mad Mothers Anton Shammas offer it to a pregnant

offer it to a pregnant woman who wants a son

and for whom there is no compassion

Lawrence Normand is Senior Lecturer in English

Anthology: The Poetry of Arab Women ed

All My Mad Mothers Anton Shammas offer it to a pregnantShortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize Jacqueline 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