EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

MATERNAL IMPRESSION

Poetry Pamphlet

(Against the Grain)

Published March 2021

CAN IT BE ABOUT ME?

Poetry for children  

(Circle Time Press)

Republished Sept 2019

THE GIRL IS SMILING

Poetry collection

(Circle Time Press)

Published Feb 2012

A LIFE IN THE YEAR OF... POETRY AT HIGHFIELD

School poetry anthology

(Circle Time Press)

Published Oct 2015

WYOMING TRAIL

Novel

(Granta)

Published May 1998

Poet, novelist, translator, and a facilitator of writing for children and adults.


Co-curator ALL SAINTS SESSIONS with composer Alastair Gavin

CHERYL

MOSKOWITZ

Photograph by Caroline Forbes

Maternal Impression poetry pamphlet

(Against the Grain Press, Oct 2021)


Every time I have heard Cheryl Moskowitz read “The Donner Party”, strange things have happened – a bell has rung with no-one at the door, candles have guttered in a church setting, and shivers always run down my spine. Moskowitz’s poetry summons spirits and spills beyond the words on the page into a mystical space where we are all connected in body and mind. These are poems that once read or heard, leave their mark. Mesmeric, soul-feeding, uneasy, I come back to them again and again for reassurance, admonishment, and recognition of what it is to hang onto the maternal in our collective journey. Maternal Impression is a call to arms – maternal arms – and all that implies in the Anthropocene. It has a beating heart that needs to be heard, felt, and heeded. – Lisa Kelly, Chair Magma Poetry

Reading Maternal Impression is to have the feeling of walking on nails with bare feet, with the assurance of trust. I go tenderly where these fine poems take me, knowing they will advance my pleasure, my empowerment. – Daljit Nagra

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