What Concerns Us What Concerns Us:Paperback

What Concerns Us What Concerns Us:PaperbackRahel and Fenna grew up in an all female household with their mother and her female partner. Now Rahel strives to reproduce the traditional family unit but she is haunted by an unsettling pregnancy, postnatal depression and compulsive breastfeeding, while having mixed feelings about her singing career. Meanwhile, Fenna wonders whether she consented to the intercourse with Luc which left her pregnant. What Concerns Us is a punchy contemporary read that

The Darwin Vampires is an addictive and immersive experience that you’ll want to return to again and again

but few readers will leave this collection without feeling better informed and more curious about their worlds

desire and grief are a double-edged subject

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we don’t heal and we don’t change

crash against the rocks

and a brilliant

Asuka Hishiki possesses not only a sense of profound awe and wonder at the intricacies of the natural world

Khalid Al-Nassrallah and Bushra Khalfan

one which culminates in a brutal and drastic action

slips between affection and fear

These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar