Matronymics by Kate Ashton Bloodaxe ' – The Telegraph

' – The Telegraph

get up to hear the dawn chorus

illustrated by Reena Makwana

is such a litany

and urban foundations crumble into cisterns

Matronymics by Kate Ashton Bloodaxe ' – The TelegraphIn her second collection Kate Ashton examines womans estate from the warring perspectives of creativity and procreativity. Born into her biological destiny, woman is harnessed at adolescence to procreative necessity; she may refuse, she must choose. But what if the unconscious leads inexorably towards another equally all consuming fate, as artist? The overwhelming gravitas, beauty and mystery of motherhood is presented in all its extraordinary,