Salmacis: becoming not quite a woman – Elizabeth Train-Brown

Good morning and welcome to another blog tour! Today we are exploring the debut poetry collection Salmacis: becoming not quite a woman by Elizabeth Train-Brown with the wonderful Renard Press. Inspired by the tale of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and pagan folklore, this collection not only draws on the classical, but uses

Blonde Roots – Bernadine Evaristo

Following Bernadine Evaristo’s joint Booker Prize win with Margaret Atwood for Girl, Woman, Other, her popularity has taken on another dimension. Girl, Woman, Other is now a multi-award winning book since winning the Booker over half a year ago. However, we are not here to talk about this book, but an earlier publication of Evaristo’s,