Unmothered book launch

Contact: cherry@arachnepress.com

Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/638557281017

Join A J Akoto to celebrate the launch of her debut poetry collection, Unmothered, with a reading and Q and A session, cake and drink
Join us to celebrate AJ Akoto's phenomenal debut poetry collection Unmothered, which explores the space inhabited by undutiful daughters, who really need to be able to leave their mothers behind. Using myth, especially Medea, as a way to be able to say the unsayable - sometimes, your mother is the monster you need saving from.

A J will read from the book and there will be a Q&A with Cherry Potts, Arachne Press editor (and the audience), as well as an opportunity to purchase a copy of the book and get it signed.

In an intimate and unflinching collection, A J Akoto tracks the complex bind of mother-daughter relationships. Through separation and attempts to mend, longing, and the fluidity of myth/story-telling in defining histories and identities, she collapses the elision between womanhood and motherhood/daughterhood, bringing to the forefront that which usually remains unspoken.

Entry: free ticket via eventbrite

Time: 7:00pm