The House of Broken Things

<p><i>She''s sleeping like a fairy tale girl, before the story</i><br><i>teaches girls like her a lesson.</i><br><br>In <i>The House of Broken Things</i>, Kim Moore interrogates motherhood as a transformative experience in all its complexity and ambivalence. Moore conjours an intimate atmosphere of haunting domesticity, treating the poem as a kind of secular prayer: the worldly and otherworldy held in the same breath. <br><br>These poems are a nuanced and sometimes painfully honest portrait of life as a new mother, and her hopes and terrors for a daughter growing up in a world of violence towards women and girls. Throughout, fears and tensions are paired seamlessly with moments of great tenderness, wit and revelation: these poems always offer a way out.<br><br><i>The House of Broken Things</i> is a thrilling new work from one of our boldest and most exciting poets.</p>