Unmothered Olivia Milburn Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid

Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid form in the present as a frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood

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the lives of ordinary people pushed up against an iron occupation and fighting for survival with all the comic and moving strategems of the human imagination

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Unmothered Olivia Milburn Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybridA 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