Sophie Butler, 40, lost her mam, Rita Oxman, to bowel cancer in 2021 and has since written a book of poems in her honour ...

Award-winning poet, wildland firefighter, and co-founder of Left Margin Lit, Rachel Richardson has a new book, “Smother.” ...

Steve Jennings/WireImage More than 15 years after the death of her mother ... Maria writes lovingly about her mother in her new book of poetry, I Am Maria, reflecting on the bond they shared ...

Louise Machen, 44, from Middleton has been nominated for the Forward Prize which is the most prestigious award for poetry in ...

Following the recent death of someone else with dementia, Gwen had a dream about her mum and wrote this emotive poem when she woke up. My mum, Jane, was beginning to get confused and frustrated when ...

With her poetry collection “Museum of the Soon ... Like Cooley, Young uses the death of her mother to explore personal suffering in a multitude of ways. Once more, ashes are featured prominently.

A: That poem is my play on the idea of the smoke as the idealized and unattainable mother. There’s an unattainable ... and I was feeling devastated at her loss. I started writing to her, and ...