Ebook: Boom!

The title poem of this new collection of poems by Carolyn Jess-Cooke: 'Boom!' enacts the moment when the new baby arrives in the family 'like a hand grenade'. 'Becoming a mother changed me in every single way, ' says the author, 'my first child - born in October 2006 - just about knocked me sideways. There were many reasons for this, but here's the biggest one: I could not believe how public and political the (hugely personal) experience of motherhood was.' A noted academic, author of a book about film and Shakespeare, and a best-selling popular novelist 'The Guardian Angel's Journal' and.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Boom!; I Phone You From the Sumo; Anonymous; The Days of the Ninth Month; Home Birth; The Right Ones; The Waking; The Lotteries; The Sadness; Parallelism; Red Stars; Different Water; Each Thing Observed Closer; Nights!; The Second Way to Skin a Cat; Motherhood Diptych; Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction; The Only Dad at Playgroup; Working Mother; Poem Made From Bits of Newspaper Headlines; Silence for Schumann; Staying at Home; Hare; Thetis; Speech Therapy Candidate; Daughtering; The Possessed; To a Zoopraxiscope; What Matters.