Fetch Your Mother's Heart by lisa luxx Ruth Padel The poems are at once

The poems are at once exotic and other yet recognizably drawing on a poetic tradition that includes Novel prize-winner Octavio Paz

For Manhire

Monet and Velázquez as well as contemporary Irish artists)

when she competed locally and internationally for her home city

Poems about the grief of losing a parent are woven through others exploring the joys of new fatherhood – and ultimately about what it is to be human

Fetch Your Mother's Heart by lisa luxx Ruth Padel The poems are at once"tender, political, simultaneously exuberant and mournful, and lovingly populated with family of every definition" Safia Elhillo Lisa Luxxs debut poetry collection is an examination of the tender violence that pools in all our states of wanting; from our intimacies to our uprisings. It searches the grief of our longing, from the eyes of displacement; carrying her experience in foster care, adoption, and as a mixed heritage daughter of the Arab