The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood Sarah Westcott there is more to her

there is more to her than meets the eye

Her acclaimed early poem

and finally into a vivid and complex array of marriage poems ― with the poet older

the male gaze

but often as the greatest woman poet in world literature

The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood Sarah Westcott there is more to herThe poets write with searing honesty about the incredible strength and capacity for self sacrifice demanded by motherhood, writing as parents as well as in relation to their own parents. The darkest thoughts of exhausted mothers are sensitively portrayed, as poets expose the weight of responsibility behind the hallowed state of motherhood, and question the expectations society places on mothers. This book gives voice to universal but usually silenced