Review:
And Suddenly You Find Yourself by Natalie Ann Holborow,
More Than You Were by Christina Thatcher and
Visiting the Minotaur by Claire Williamson From Planet 232

Planet 228

Zoë Brigley Thompson reviews
And Suddenly You Find Yourself By Natalie Ann Holborow
and
More Than You Were By Christina Thatcher
and
Visiting the Minotaur By Claire Williamson

And Suddenly You Find Yourself By Natalie Ann Holborow

Parthian, £7.99

Following in the wake of many brilliant books by women poets dealing with family relationships, like Pascale Petit’s Mama Amazonica or Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Was an Aztec, these three collections delve into the complications of being a daughter, a sister or a mother. All three writers open up the territory of what Petit calls ‘private wars’ inside the family.

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About the author

Zoë Brigley Thompson is Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University. She has published two collections of poetry, The Secret, and Conquest. Her third poetry collection and collected nonfiction are forthcoming in 2019.