Stepmother by Helen Mort
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026 Claudine Toutoungi these poems unsettle all our

these poems unsettle all our certainties

Her 2007 retrospective Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems was followed by two further Welsh-English collections

this charms the buried light of stars –

and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array

Lewis Wyn Davies

Stepmother by Helen Mort <br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2026</b> Claudine Toutoungi these poems unsettle all ourWhen a new relationship casts poet Helen Mort in the role of stepmother, she embarks on a personal quest for understanding; moving across verse and personal essay, from fairytale to modern blended family. Turning a bold and inventive gaze on this neglected dimension of female experience, these are candid dispatches from the shifting terrain of the modern family. As playful as it is moving, STEPMOTHER radiates Morts signature empathetic warmth, but