Matronymics by Kate Ashton letters and resilience between fresh poets

and resilience between fresh poets and the literary ancestors that came before them

Deeply personal

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But there is also much celebration

and their determination to be heard

Matronymics by Kate Ashton letters and resilience between fresh poetsIn her second collection Kate Ashton examines womans estate from the warring perspectives of creativity and procreativity. Born into her biological destiny, woman is harnessed at adolescence to procreative necessity; she may refuse, she must choose. But what if the unconscious leads inexorably towards another equally all consuming fate, as artist? The overwhelming gravitas, beauty and mystery of motherhood is presented in all its extraordinary,