(M)othering : an anthology

Sorbie, Anne, 1960- (editor.). Grogan, Heidi, (editor.).

Summary: (M)othering is a universally understood phenomenon that speaks to the act of becoming something unexpected and entirely outside ourselves. And this book is a collection of writing and art about that. Fifty-six contributors illuminate the kind of gritty, body mind soul transformations that only the mothering myth can evoke. Their work will take you to wonder and wildness, kindness, beauty, grief, love. These writers and artists show us what it means to create, to birth something, to love it and to suffer loss. They share their truths about being persecuted, fleeing. About trans-generational trauma. Some write of broken women, mothering their mothers and sisters, choosing not to be mothers. Having many mothers. Mothering grown children. Men who want to be mothered. They tackle identity, adoption, abortion, addiction, self-care, sacrifice, nature and nurture, making art, unravelling, invention, loneliness, anger, laughter and joy. They are queer, Métis, Indigenous, French, male, Jewish, Mennonite, descendants of the Blackfoot and the Cree, settlers and immigrants. In unison, they speak about experiences far beyond the pathologizing of the pregnant female body.

Record details

ISBN: 1771339128
ISBN: 9781771339124
Physical Description: xv, 228 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Inanna Publications and Education, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Le Pèlerinage / Sabine Lecorre-Moore & Patricia Lortie -- Mother / Sheri-D Wilson -- Toward Hygge / Vivian Hansen -- The Crossing / Norma Kerby -- All in a Day's Work / Lori D. Roadhouse -- Children of the Forest / Patricia Lortie -- First Wate 1963 / Joan Shillington -- egg / Katherena Vermette -- Latch / Jessica Gigot -- Song of the Seven Eves / Joan Crate -- The Pregnancy Poems / Joan Crate -- Vision / Mary Warren Foulk -- First Day / Katherine Matiko -- Birthright / Kelly Kaur -- How I Finally Became a Mom / Jennifer Carr -- Taking the Leap / Julianne Palumbo -- Fostering Love / Julianne Palumbo -- The Night Time Rituals / Amy Dryer -- The Night Time Rituals 2/ Amy Dryer -- My Life in Colours / Marie-Manon Corbeil -- As (M)other as Artist / Marie-Manon Corbeil -- Naissance / Dorothy Bently -- Bloodline at the Water Cooler / Kim Mannix -_ Marsupiak / E. D. Morin -- Mother3 / Ambivalently Yours -- (M)other / Sanita Fejzić -- Mother2 / Ambivalently Yours -- Night's Waking / Mary Warren Foulk -- 37 Dustballs / Norma Kerby -- Reason / Katherine Smart -- Travelling Light / Julianne Palumbo -- Balloon Ride / Joan Crate -- pritchard park / Katherena Vermette -- Memory Series #4 / Marie-Manon Corbeil -- The Mom Costume / Lisa Harris -- SicknessSoftnessThunderJoy / Melanie Jones -- The Stand of Flamingos / Elaine Hayes -- Date night / Kyle Nylund -- Bana Thighearna nan Eilean / Anne Sorbie -- Blood Count / Susan Ouriou -- Here and There, Everywhere in Between / Kelly S. Thompson -- Crohn's / Liz Kingsley -- Thoughts 6 / Doris Charest -- Full-Body Tattoo / Dorothy Bentley -- Breathe / Sandy Bezanson -- Nameless / Melanie Flores -- Contract Expired / Yvonne Trainer -- Quicksand / Shannon Kernaghan -- Heavy metal / Shannon Kernaghan -- Batgirl / Louisa Howerow -- Thoughts 2 / Doris Charest -- Daughters / Joan Shillington -- To Say a Prayer / Susan Ouriou -- To Have Children / Louisa Howerow -- Marrow / Darcie Friesen Hossack -- Spring / Liz Kingsley -- Bigfoot Therapy / Barb Howard -- What Feeds Us / Louisa Howerow -- Sudden Leap Away / Joan Crate -- Bedtime Walls Peacocks Men's-Room Stalls / Michael -- Mothering in Lieu / Chynna Laird -- Four Generations of Stepmothers / Penney Kome -- The Wing-Breath of Wasps / Joan Shillington -- The Scent of Nettles / Daniela Elza -- Nourishing Your Roots / Michelle Austen -- In the Child Footsteps of Light / Daniela Elza -- Halifax Public Gardens / Yvonne Trainer -- Talbot Crescent / Jane Cawthorne -- What is a baby? / Rona Altrows -- All That History / Doris Charest -- Mothering My Mother / Katherine Matiko -- Mother by Lightning / Katherine Matiko -- B: Bottles / Kathleen Wall -- D: Dementia / Kathleen Wall -- E: Eagles / Kathleen Wall -- Lessons / Myrl Coulter -- Nestlings / Louisa Howerow -- I Am Ready to Memorize mother / Josephine LoRe -- As Tumbled Over Rim / Claudia Coutu Radmore -- Community / Sabine Lecorre-Moore -- wishes, all in vain / Cathie Borrie -- Bring Me Out in the Woods / Heidi Grogan -- I Seek / Adrienne Adams -- Hospital Corners and Tuesdays / Kari Strutt -- Gestation / Jayme D. Tucker -- The Unfathomable Attraction of the Man Who Wants a Mother / Aritha van Herk -- one moment of happiness / Cathie Borrie -- Left Me Open / Natalie Meisner -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors.