The House of Broken Things

'Moore's new collection constructs an ambitious architecture for exploring intergenerational trauma and motherhood' Kit Fan, Guardian 'Best recent poetry'
She's sleeping like a fairy tale girl, before the story
teaches girls like her a lesson.

In The House of Broken Things, Kim Moore interrogates motherhood as a transformative experience in all its complexity and ambivalence.

These poems are a nuanced and sometimes painfully honest portrait of life as a new mother. Her hopes for her daughter, the many terrors of mothering her into a world so fraught with violence towards women and girls. Fears and anxieties are paired seamlessly with moments of great tenderness, wit and revelation. Moore conjours a haunting atmosphere of bodies and boundaries, rhythms and movements, inheritance and loss, domesticity and defiance: this is a house of broken things but these poems always offer a way out.

The House of Broken Things is a thrilling new work from one of our boldest and most exciting poets.