All My Mad Mothers Anton Shammas albeit intermittently

albeit intermittently

Iraq and Egypt

Ghosts abound in a bleak fragmented landscape

Great literature and art have been an unintended consequence of war

Lisa Goldman

All My Mad Mothers Anton Shammas albeit intermittentlyShortlisted 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