Unmothered Olivia Milburn With the soft touch of

With the soft touch of an accomplished writer

Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid form in the present as a frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood

Originally published in 2012

Lady Time by Molly-Rose Medhurst translated by Ana Sánchez Asenjo Silences by Michaela Vitagliano translated by Sonia Herranz Martínez and Salomé Torres Vargas Unmask Me by Denise Monroe translated by Paula López García and Olivia Serret Sanz

Unmothered Olivia Milburn With the soft touch ofA Debut collection from Black British poet A J Akoto. When is a mother a myth, and when is she a monster? In an intimate and unflinching collection, A J Akoto tracks the complex bind of mother daughter relationships. Through separation and attempts to mend, longing, and the fluidity of myth story telling in defining histories and identities, she collapses the elision between womanhood and motherhood daughterhood, bringing to the forefront that which