Unmothered Olivia Milburn incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory

incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductory description and imagines how the whole collection might have started

there is firm resistance

thus enabling the reader a direct comparison on how one creative artist responds to the work of another

the lives of ordinary people pushed up against an iron occupation and fighting for survival with all the comic and moving strategems of the human imagination

--   RTA Parker was born in 1978

Unmothered Olivia Milburn incorporates passages from Boccaccio's introductoryA Debut collection from Black British poet A J Akoto. When is a mother a myth, and when is she a monster? 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