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Poetry

A growing list of poetry on the topic of assisted reproduction. 

  • Fatema Abdoolcarim, Tremble (Monitor Books, 2025)
  • Harry Baker, ‘Trying, a poem about fertility’
  • Allison Bevins, A Season for Speaking (2019)
  • Julia Bloch, The Sacremento of Desire (Sidebrow Books, 2020)
  • Zoe Brigley, ‘Infertility’, in Conquest (Bloodaxe, 2012)
  • Jen Campbell, Please Do Not Touch The Exhibit (Bloodaxe, 2023)
  • Rebecca Close, ‘London Evening News Gazes at Sappho Magazine in the Eve of the “Band the Babies” Exposé (4th January 1978)’, in Replica (Canal, 2022)
  • Allison Cobb, Green-Wood (Nightboat Books, 2010)
  • Julia Copus, The World’s Two Smallest Humans (Faber, 2012)
  • Anthony Dunn, ‘In Vitro’, in Take This One to Bed (Valley Press, 2016)
  • Gerrie Fellows, Window for a Small Blue Child (Carcanet, 2008)
  • Erica Gillingham, The Human Body Is a Hive (Verve, 2021)
  • Victoria Kennefick, Egg/Shell (Carcanet, 2024)
  • Kat Francois, ‘Fertility Day: Letter to my younger self’
  • Keetje Kuipers, All Its Charms (BOA Editions, 2019)
  • Ada Limón, The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) – see ‘The Vulture and the Body’ from this collection
  • Rachel Matthews, do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom (The Emma Press, 2020)
  • Susan McCabe, ‘modern family’, in I Woke a Lake (2025)
  • Gail McConnell, Fourteen (Green Bottle Press, 2018) & Fothermather (Ink Sweat and Tears Press, 2019) 
  • Lauren O’Donovan, Superposition, (Southword Editions, 2025)
  • Antia Pati, ‘Bloodfruit’, Hiding to Nothing (LUP, 2022)
  • Kerry Priest, The Bone Staircase (Live Canon, 2020)
  • Sophie Robinson, ‘From Nacre’  (2023)
  • Wendy Pratt, ‘Three Poems’ (2003)
  • Emily Schulten, ‘Motels We Stay in While Trying to Get Pregnant: The Grant’, Ploughshares, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring 2020), p. 115
  • Robin Silbergleid, The Baby Book (CavanKerry Press, 2015)
  • Emily Skaja, ‘In My Infertility Era’, The American Poetry Review, Vol. 53, Iss. 4,  (Jul/Aug 2024): p. 26.
  • Nomi Stone, ‘You Could Build a World This Way’ (2023)
  • Monica Youn, Blackacre (Greywolf, 2016)

Please get in touch with any additions to this list!

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