Representing assisted reproduction
Exploring the representation of assisted reproduction in literature, media, and the arts.
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!
