Mamiaith Nell Dunn Ferguson's writing is a unique

Ferguson's writing is a unique amalgam of the starkly real – the terrible poverty of wartime Tyneside

and her affair with Austin’s white father

At the heart of the book are tender but unsentimental love poems

author of Caribbean Poetics (Peepal Tree Press)

Mamiaith Nell Dunn Ferguson's writing is a uniqueNess Owen lives on Ynys Mn off the North Wales coast. This is her first collection, and is partly bilingual. The poems journey widely from family and motherhood, to politics, place and belonging: an underlying connection to the earth of Ness' home, that feeds a longing desire determination to write in the Mamiaith (Mothertongue) that she speaks, but did not learn to write fluently. The interplay of languages and the shifts of meaning from one to the