Debut Collection

Jennie Turnbull ‘Mother Tongues’

I have been waiting for these poems to land! They read like a cinematic sequence, each a poem dramatically framed moment that leaves me wanting more.

A family is torn apart and a new family stitched together like red wool round plump fingers. These are poems of displacement, isolation, and love, spanning countries, languages, and generations where the dictionary is…a lifeboat, ladder, map. Glorious!

(Morag Anderson, writer)

Available September