Doe songs /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boodoo-Fortuné, Danielle (Author)
Corporate Author: Arts Council England (sponsoring body.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leeds : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • To enter my mother's house
  • How to make him stay
  • Doe
  • Dream of my daughter as a fawn
  • Dream of my daughter as a turtle
  • Tayra
  • Portrait of my father as a grouper
  • Howler
  • Feathers
  • Guayaba
  • Tangerines
  • Jaguar Mary, Maria Lionaz
  • Boa gravida
  • Mama River
  • Cornbird
  • Sombra
  • The fifth month
  • Amateur midwifery
  • The labouring mammal's journal of hours
  • Delivery
  • Alternative remedies
  • Learning to breathe in luminous water
  • Novena for a wounded wild mother
  • Waiting
  • Carry home
  • The gardener's duaghter in the evening
  • The gardener's daughter writes home
  • The gardener's daughter walks in the dark
  • Solar eclipse, Guapo Beach
  • Brasso, homeward
  • The blue house
  • Reader, beware
  • Chameleon thoughts
  • Your daughter is trouble
  • Pictures
  • Mother in the morning
  • The visitor
  • Coronary I
  • Coronary II
  • Coronary III
  • The haunting of his name
  • Letters from New Grace
  • Last postcard from New Grace
  • On being burnt
  • The ninth moon
  • Praise song in carbon
  • A poem on the world's last night
  • Book of nights
  • A hammer to love with
  • Five songs for Petra.