A collection of poetry on the themes of motherhood, empowerment, love and loss by acclaimed poet who has published three collections previously.

> Drawing on her Indian and British life experience, Fraser engages with hard-hitting current issues such as rape culture in India, climate change and war. A son questions his mother’s love after she has learned about his violent deeds. The biblical Eve is shown as a liberator. A daughter of India demands justice from her society.

There is a wonderful conversational ease in the writing, with mother and child sharing their feelings about music, art, love and politics, but the poems are always delicately and lyrically crafted. STEPHEN REGAN, Professor of Poetry at the University of Durham

BASHABI FRASER is a critic, poet, editor, children’s writer and translator. She was born in West Bengal in India. Bashabi divides her life between the two countries she loves most – India and Britain. Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, she is the winner of Rabindra Bharati Society Honour 2014, Women Empowered: Art and Culture Award 2010 and IAS Prize for Literary Services in Scotland 2009. She has written for many publications, has three other collections of poems in print and has been included in a number of anthologies. Bashabi has also written children’s stories as well as a shadow puppet play and a book on the Bengal Partition and is also a classical Indian dancer and choreographer. She now lives in Edinburgh with her husband and has one daughter.