![]() ![]() Pingback: REVIEW of Solstice Shorts Anthology | Arachne Press Pingback: February Sale offers from Arachne Press | Arachne Press Pingback: The Solstice Shorts Festival at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich | Room for Writing Pingback: Want a Solstice Shorts T-shirt? | Arachne Press (Poet, publisher and former Fostering Services Manager). An illuminating must-read for adoptees and their parents, both biological and de facto, and for adoption workers who engage with the precarious task of arranging the exchange of one set of parents with another. With language at once forthright and tender, this moving sequence reflects Foley’s unflinching gaze into the mirror in a sometimes excoriating attempt to discern traces of her belonging, and to make peace with the past. Martyn Crucefix These poems are an absorbing account of the legacy of being an adopted child. Brilliantly focused and carefully sequenced, these poems provide a thrilling and moving account of the processes by which any of us – adopted or not – become who we are. There is suffering and lies, grief, distance and disappointment, but her message is ultimately an optimistic one: blood is not thicker than water we are each of us, to a large extent, creators of ourselves, parents of ourselves. #IWD ORDER MANAGER EDIT SHIPPING SPINNING FULL#Foley’s language is imagistic, fragmentary, full of jump-cuts, yet always vigorously carried forward through a set of clear-speaking voices to show us that the “DNA of years” is just as formative as that “tangle of parental DNA” we are each born with. Foley does so with consummate skill, creating poetic forms to encompass the experiences of the child, her birth mother, her adoptive parents, aunts and midwives. Drawn from poems written over several years, this book’s dizzying ambition is to plot a path through the life of an adopted child. Fanthorpe) was for My Father, Counting Sheep which is included in the collection. Kate Foley has published seven collections previously, and her poetry has garnered many awards, commendations and prizes, most recently the 2014 Second Light Long Poetry Prize (Judged by Jackie Kay) for The Other Side of Sleep, the title poem of Arachne Press’ first poetry anthology. While these poems will resonate strongly with those of us adopted as children, and with adoptive parents all of us grow up wondering who we are and who we might be, and need to see, accept and parent the face we find in the mirror. This is not the well-worn story of abandonment and discovery, although the poems do hinge around those facts. Sixty years later she was standing with her newly discovered brother by the bronze plaque commemorating their mother in a San Francisco graveyard. ![]() So wrote The National Adoption Society to the woman who became Kate Foley’s adoptive mother. It will be quite in order for you to take baby if you like her and there is no need to bring any clothing, as baby will be dressed ready for the journey and a small parcel of clothes will be given you at the interview. 4th May: Thank you for your kind donation of two and sixpence …ġ9th August: I have pleasure in sending you particulars of a dear little girl …Ģ4th August: I am so glad to know you are interested in this little Catholic baby and can come on September 5th. The book is being launched in National Adoption Week. Sometimes autobiographical and narrative, sometimes oblique, brought together for the first time, these poems trace a search for identity and for the meaning of family which everyone can relate to, whatever kind of family brought them up.This is NOT a misery memoir! Some terrible things happen, but the voice of Kate’s young self, deeply unimpressed by all the drama around her, holds the story together. The Don’t Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions. The Don't Touch Garden Poetry Collection by Kate Foleyīorn in 1938 and adopted soon after, Kate Foley grew up in London during WWII. ![]()
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