Mother | Line by Ankita Saxena collected works ’ – Cork Evening Echo

’ – Cork Evening Echo

Alive with the clang and sway of the “chosen colours of daily family life”

self-exposure and intimacy

and in a world the more loved for the sharpness of loss

She may have been a lesbian in the modern sense

Mother | Line by Ankita Saxena collected works ’ – Cork Evening EchoWhat do we inherit from our mothers? From our grandmothers? From the legacy of colonisation and empire? Mother Line, Ankita Saxenas debut poetry collection, charts lineage in all its forms, delving into female rage, compassion, and endurance. Drawing on the authors British Asian heritage and experiences growing up as a woman in an increasingly violent world, this collection weaves together the personal and the political in ghazals, odes and specular