Mother and baby homes – File [1] and File [2]

These two poems, named ‘File [1]’ and ‘File [2]’ are taken from a sequence of sonnets that run across ‘Speculum’. They are both found and imagined pieces that recreate the admittance notes for girls and women entering mother and baby homes at various points in the Twentieth Century. Within the poems the names of the … Continue reading Mother and baby homes – File [1] and File [2]