STEPMOTHER

When a new relationship casts her in the unforeseen role of stepmother, prizewinning poet Helen Mort embarks on a personal quest to understand this most maligned of female archetypes.

'She already has a mum. To speak would have seemed like a disavowal, a distancing. To stay silent meant taking something which was not yours.

So of course you said nothing. You took it.'

With compelling candour and emotional insight, these poems are unforgettable dispatches from the shifting terrain that is the ...