This Was Your Mother

Benedicta Norell: 'Being called a terrible mother was a defining moment for me'

Sanjeev Sethi: 'My poetry is my gaze'

Sadie Maskery: 'This collection is mainly me trying to understand other people'

Elizabeth Barton: 'I have to feel my way into any poem, like Orpheus feeling his way into the Underworld'

Bonnie Meekums: 'Family and belonging are enduring themes in my life'

Margaret Royall: 'Feather by feather, poem by poem, Owl Fetish takes us on a journey in the blue hour shadows of night' (Karen Pierce Gonzalez)

Jason Stocks: 'I have a lot to confess'

Zary Fekete: 'Sobriety is a fragile thing'

François Bereaud: 'Prompts for some of the stories in this collection include a certain flag, a smashed car, two semis parked on an overpass, a newspaper article about elephants'

C.E. Hoffman: 'Writing is the life raft to my inner storm'

Thasia Anne Lunger: 'Our goal is to start serious conversations on some of the toughest subjects facing society today'

John Compton: 'My poetry came from the chaos of my life'

Peter Mladinic: 'What counts is not what happened “in real life” but what happens on the page'

Candice Kelsey: 'What are poems but life’s postcards?'

Andy Murray: 'Some of my work sounds more dramatic in Scots than in English'

Zary Fekete: 'This novella reminded me how much of my life is positively coloured by my love of reading'

Corinna Board: 'I love the musicality of poetry'

Karen Pierce Gonzalez: 'What was most important was what was left behind'

Mandira Pattnaik: 'I did not expect the book to travel this far and wide'

Lisa Henry: 'Writing is Therapeutic for Me'