Slip av Amelia Loulli

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<p><b>A daring and beautifully crafted debut collection about the experience of abortion ¿ from an emerging poet and winner of the Northern Writers¿ Award<br><br>''Amelia Loulli stakes out fresh imaginative territory''</b><br>JACOB POLLEY, author of<i> Jackself</i><br><br><b>''Painful, brave and steadfastly honest''</b><br>ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of <i>Physical</i><br><br>Amelia Loulli opens this fearless, frank, absorbing debut with the words ''I''m going to tell you what happened'', and that is precisely what she does:<br><br><i>If our mothers could see us now corridors of girls lifting legs like candles<br>to the stirrups</i><br><br>One in three women in Britain will have an abortion by the time they are forty-five. For such a common procedure it still carries social stigma, and has not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry - not, at least, until now. With these careful, generous, insistent poems, we are led through the experience: surprised at every turn. There is vulnerab