By Victoria Punch
In the second instalment of our #mumpoemprompts September Challenges, Mum Poet Club member Victoria Punch introduces us to the Burning Haibun and encourag...
By Rachel Dickens
Each Monday in September a member of the Mum Poet Club will introduce to a form we might not be familiar with, to inspire us to have a go ourselves. Firs...
Emma Cottam - Founder of Isabella and Us and Editor of the Positive Wellbeing Zine For Mums - tells us how and why she started writing poetry when she became a mother.
Mother, Poet and Mum Poet Club Member Jemma Chawla (@new_stanza) shares with us how she came to publish her debut poetry collection: No Walk In The Park – Stumbling Through...
Content Note: Contains discussion of a traumatic birth
Birth doula and poet Ebony Gilbert tells us why she writes and about the traumatic birth that led to the poem 'Cornfl...
Ash Bainbridge’s poem “Mumpa” is featured in our anthology “Songs of Love and Strength”. Here Ash tells us how their experiences of pregnancy and parenting beyond the gende...
Mum Poet Club member Susie Butt tells us about taking party in Mothership Writers' Born on Lockdown project.
I first heard about the Born in Lockdown collaborative writing...
We have a cuppa with Julie to chat about her life by the sea in Whitstable, her beautifully-named children Walter, Arrietty and Felicity, and her wonderful artwork for our...
Samantha Nimmo's poem “Most of the Weight I Gained During Pregnancy was From Carrying Around Other People’s Opinions” is featured in our anthology "Songs of Love and Stren...
Novelist Emylia Hall tells us about her own experiences of writing motherhood and how she set up the Mothership Writers course to help new mums carve out a space for creati...