The House of Broken Things

'One of the most poignant meditations on motherhood to be published in recent years' Jade Cuttle, The Observer 'Moore's new collection constructs an ambitious architecture for exploring intergenerational trauma and motherhood' Kit Fan, The Guardian 'Best recent poetry' She's sleeping like a fairy tale girl, before the story teaches girls like her a lesson. In The House of Broken Things, Kim Moore interrogates motherhood as a transformative experience in all its complexity and ambivalence. These poems are a nuanced and sometimes painfully honest portrait of life as a new mother. Her hopes for her daughter, the many terrors of mothering her into a world so fraught with violence towards women and girls. Fears and anxieties are paired seamlessly with moments of great tenderness, wit and revelation. Moore conjours a haunting atmosphere of bodies and boundaries, rhythms and movements, inheritance and loss, domesticity and defiance: this is a house of broken things but these poems always offer a way out. The House of Broken Things is a thrilling new work from one of our boldest and most exciting poets.