When I Think of My Body As a Horse

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When I Think of My Body As a Horse

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Author: Wendy Pratt

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781912196401

Date: 1st February, 2021

Publisher: SMITH|DOORSTOP BOOKS

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When I Think of My Body as a Horse centres around the experience of infertility and baby loss with a wider focus on body ownership and motherhood. The poems follow a totemic animal theme rooted in nature through which the poet explores her own experience of the loss of her daughter, an IVF baby, during an emergency c-section in 2010. The poems in When I Think of My Body as a Horse are about trauma, but they are also about recovery and the powerful, animal instincts that surround the act of creating a family, and how this is absorbed and accepted as part of a wider narrative when there is no 'rainbow baby' to add closure to the trauma of loss.

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