Mothersong by Amy Acre BAME Dame Julie Andrews’ Botched Vocal

Dame Julie Andrews’ Botched Vocal Cord Surgery and Other Poems

and new freedom

From William Shakespeare to John Keats to Katherine Mansfield

but this peony is nearer the chrysanthemum of Japanese writing from long ago

In turn allusive

Mothersong by Amy Acre BAME Dame Julie Andrews’ Botched VocalA lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood the debut work of an endlessly inventive poet whose work 'fizzes with energy, physicality, and the levitating openness of song' (Rebecca Tamas) 'An essential read, poignant, powerful and provocative. I love the feeling in Amy Acre's poems' Salena Godden Amy Acre's debut collection is an unforgettable, unflinching excavation of motherhood, what it means to be a female artist,