{"id":93,"date":"2025-08-26T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/representing-assisted-reproduction\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:01:22","slug":"poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research-sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/representing-assisted-reproduction\/poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"comp-m4x2m276\" class=\"Oqnisf comp-m4x2m276 wixui-section\" data-block-level-container=\"ClassicSection\" aria-label=\"main content\">\n<p id=\"bgLayers_comp-m4x2m276\" class=\"MW5IWV\" data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-m4x2m276\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"font-size: 16px\">A growing list of poetry on the topic of assisted reproduction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"comp-m4x2m27j\" class=\"Oqnisf comp-m4x2m27j wixui-section\" data-block-level-container=\"ClassicSection\">\n<div class=\"\" data-mesh-id=\"comp-m4x2m27jinlineContent\" data-testid=\"inline-content\">\n<div data-mesh-id=\"comp-m4x2m27jinlineContent-gridContainer\" data-testid=\"mesh-container-content\">\n<div id=\"comp-m4x2m285\" class=\"Z_l5lU ku3DBC zQ9jDz qvSjx3 Vq6kJx comp-m4x2m285 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\">\n<ul>\n<li>Fatema Abdoolcarim,\u00a0<em>Tremble\u00a0<\/em>(Monitor Books, 2025)<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\">Harry Baker,\u00a0<span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dAAVlTQZrEU?si=vfBDTV0S3wlqhK9z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;Trying, a poem about fertility&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Allison Bevins,\u00a0<em>A Season for Speaking<\/em>\u00a0(2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Julia Bloch,\u00a0<em>The Sacremento of Desire<\/em> (Sidebrow Books, 2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Zoe Brigley, &#8216;Infertility&#8217;, in <em>Conquest\u00a0<\/em>(Bloodaxe, 2012)<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Jen Campbell,\u00a0<em>Please Do Not Touch The Exhibit<\/em> (Bloodaxe, 2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\">Rebecca Close, \u2018London Evening News Gazes at Sappho Magazine in the Eve of the \u201cBand the Babies\u201d Expos\u00e9 (4<sup>th<\/sup> January 1978)&#8217;, in <em>Replica <\/em>(Canal, 2022)<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Allison Cobb,\u00a0<em>Green-Wood<\/em> (Nightboat Books, 2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Julia Copus,\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Two Smallest Humans<\/em> (Faber, 2012)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Anthony Dunn, &#8216;In Vitro&#8217;, in\u00a0<em>Take This One to Bed\u00a0<\/em>(Valley Press, 2016)<\/li>\n<li>Gerrie Fellows,\u00a0<em>Window for a Small Blue Child<\/em> (Carcanet, 2007)<\/li>\n<li>Doreen Gildroy,\u00a0<em>Human Love\u00a0<\/em>(University of Chicago Press, 2005)<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Erica Gillingham,\u00a0<em>The Human Body Is a Hive<\/em> (Verve, 2021)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Douglas Kearney,\u00a0<em>Patter\u00a0<\/em>(Red Hen Press, 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Kennefick,\u00a0<em>Egg\/Shell\u00a0<\/em>(Carcanet, 2024)<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Kat Francois,\u00a0<a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07sn023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018Fertility Day: Letter to my younger self\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Nathalie Khankan,\u00a0<em>quiet orient riot <\/em>(Omnidawn Publishing, 2020)<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Keetje Kuipers,\u00a0<em>All Its Charms<\/em> (BOA Editions, 2019)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Ada Lim\u00f3n,\u00a0<em>The Carrying<\/em> (Milkweed Editions, 2018) &#8211; see &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/1618846\/the-vulture-the-body\">The Vulture and the Body&#8217;<\/a> from this collection<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Rachel Matthews,\u00a0<em>do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom<\/em> (The Emma Press, 2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Susan McCabe, &#8216;modern family&#8217;, in\u00a0<em>I Woke a Lake\u00a0<\/em>(2025)<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Gail McConnell,\u00a0<em>Fourteen\u00a0<\/em>(Green Bottle Press, 2018) &amp;<em>\u00a0Fothermather<\/em> (Ink Sweat and Tears Press, 2019)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Lauren O\u2019Donovan,\u00a0<em>Superposition<\/em>,\u00a0(Southword Editions, 2025)<\/li>\n<li>Antia Pati, &#8216;Bloodfruit&#8217;, <em>Hiding to Nothing\u00a0<\/em>(LUP, 2022)<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Kerry Priest,\u00a0<em>The Bone Staircase\u00a0<\/em>(Live Canon, 2020)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Sophie Robinson, &#8216;<\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/poetrysociety.org.uk\/poems\/from-mother-o-pearl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">From\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/poetrysociety.org.uk\/poems\/from-mother-o-pearl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nacre&#8217;\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/poetrysociety.org.uk\/poems\/from-mother-o-pearl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0(2023)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Wendy Pratt,\u00a0<a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/andotherpoems.com\/2018\/11\/02\/three-poems-by-wendy-pratt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;Three Poems&#8217;\u00a0<\/a>(2003)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\">Emily Schulten, <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/motels-we-stay-while-trying-get-pregnant\">\u2018Motels We Stay in While Trying to Get Pregnant: The Grant\u2019<\/a>, <em>Ploughshares, <\/em>Vol. 46, No. 1 (Spring 2020), p. 115<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Robin Silbergleid,\u00a0<em>The Baby Book\u00a0<\/em>(CavanKerry Press, 2015)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\">Emily Skaja, \u2018In My Infertility Era\u2019,\u00a0<em>The American Poetry Review<\/em>, Vol.\u00a053,\u00a0Iss.\u00a04,\u00a0\u00a0(Jul\/Aug 2024): p. 26.<\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Nomi Stone,\u00a0<a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/agnionline.bu.edu\/poetry\/you-could-build-a-world-this-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;You Could Build a World This Way&#8217;\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" href=\"https:\/\/agnionline.bu.edu\/poetry\/you-could-build-a-world-this-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(2023)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"font_9 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Monica Youn,<em>\u00a0Blackacre<\/em> (Greywolf, 2016)<\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u200b<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"bgLayers_comp-m4x2m276\" class=\"MW5IWV\" data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-m4x2m276\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Please get in touch with any additions to this list!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-m4x2m276\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\" style=\"font-size: 16px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img_comp-m5fe2g6s\" class=\"BI8PVQ Tj01hh alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/4035fd_a94c8e50091e44fc872001470e5cd7d7~mv2.png\/v1\/fill\/w_290,h_290,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto\/4035fd_a94c8e50091e44fc872001470e5cd7d7~mv2.png\" alt=\"Logo for representing assisted reproduction project showing the title and a hand holding a pen above the word poetry\" width=\"222\" height=\"222\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing list of poetry on the topic of assisted reproduction.\u00a0 Fatema Abdoolcarim,\u00a0Tremble\u00a0(Monitor Books, 2025) Harry Baker,\u00a0'Trying, a poem about fertility' Allison Bevins,\u00a0A Season for Speaking\u00a0(2019) Julia Bloch,\u00a0The Sacremento of 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