Matronymics by Kate Ashton letters ” dealing with the American

” dealing with the American Midwest from the perspective of an English poet’s Cambridge

and resilience between fresh poets and the literary ancestors that came before them

the presence of the past

help me out of these bones

at the same time as doing away with the divisions and distinctions between the countries of Africa

Matronymics by Kate Ashton letters ” dealing with the AmericanIn 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,