These Yellow Days Katie Fowley The Blacksmith’s Daughter is a

The Blacksmith’s Daughter is a novel full of carefree summers and hard winters

underscored by the sleeplessness of the first year of her child’s life

laying data bare with a poet’s meticulous hand

as a man whose ethnic heritage was both African and Indian in a country whose politics have been stymied by its ethnic divisions

These Yellow Days Katie Fowley The Blacksmith’s Daughter is aKitty Hawkins first collection These Yellow Days is haunted by the birth and death of an idealised adulthood. Its extinction, in the form of a dead woman, haunts the poems, observing erosion, dunescapes, femininity, rebirth. Set largely in the blustery yet desolate expanses of a coastal landscape,These Yellow Days uses speculative and imaginative juxtapositions as a means of rewriting memories, particularly interactions with those the poet holds most