Unable Mother by Helen Calcutt Autumn Bulletin which is a capacious world

which is a capacious world that seems only to widen as one reads her poems

These lines understand their power to manipulate: 'this is a poem about my mouth / intended to draw attention / to my mouth'

it has also been one of the privilege of material security and whiteness

and past selves

as true poetry should

Unable Mother by Helen Calcutt Autumn Bulletin which is a capacious worldThis work challenges our abstract and cosy notions of motherhood with a brutal and vulnerable delve into the psyche. Calcutt grapples, sometimes violently, sometimes with aching tenderness, each hard won line like squeezing flesh and fruit from the bone, this terrible love. Yet these poems reach even further, into the rent world, and the remarkable kinds of beauty to which poetry alone can allude. is an intimate book, the kind that comes in close to