Mothersong

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A lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood - the debut work of an endlessly inventive poet whose work 'fizzes with energy, physicality, and the levitating openness of song' (Rebecca Tams) 'An essential read, poignant, powerful and provocative. I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems' Salena Godden Amy Acres debut collection is an unforgettable, unflinching excavation of motherhood, what it means to be a female artist, and what it means to be a poet with a deeply integrated community. This is a timeless work the like of which we havent seen enough of in the past, primed to last long into the future. 'Amy Acre is one of the best poets of her generation. Pure cinema, raw heart, and unparalleled technique. Read this' Joelle Taylor, winner of the 2021 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 'Mothers, daughters, lovers, all the thrilling complexity of love and grief that the body must bear; these are poems which set the page aglow and make my heart spin' Liz Berry, winner of the 2018 Forward Prize for Poetry

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Mothersong is an essential read, it is poignant, powerful and provocative. I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems, this timeless vulnerability, this ripe truth, these pieces are beautiful, evocative, and everlasting -- Salena Godden
Amy Acre is one of the best poets of her generation. Pure cinema, raw heart, and unparalleled technique. Read this -- Joelle Taylor
Amy Acres poems are electric. They crackle and spark with wild feeling, inventiveness and deep sensuality. Mothers, daughters, lovers, all the thrilling complexity of love and grief that the body must bear; these are poems which set the page aglow and make my heart spin -- Liz Berry

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Amy Acre is a poet and freelance writer from London, and the editor of Bad Betty Press. Her pamphlets And They Are Covered in Gold Light and Where Were Going, We Dont Need Roads were each chosen as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poem every girl knows won the 2019 Verve Poetry Competition. She featured on The Last Dinosaurs 2020 track, In The Belly of a Whale, streamed over 600,000 times on Spotify. In 2021, she wrote and recorded Radio 4s The Ballad of the Bet a BBC Pick of the Week. Her work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, bath magg, DIVA, PERVERSE, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, The Scores, The White Review and elsewhere. Mothersong is her first collection.