Description
The subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until now been very serious, medical, and, we would argue, heterosexual and white. This anthology of poems and short fiction aims to address that, with wild and wonderful writing from humour and anger, relief and distress, by women who have experienced menopause, whether naturally or as a result of surgery; with a healthy dose of views from the global majority and the lesbian, bisexual and trans communities. With contributions from Adele Evershed, Alison Habens, Alyson Hallett, Amanda Addison, Anne Caldwell, Anne Eccleshall, Anne Macaulay, Cath Holland, Cheryl Powell, Chloe Balcomb, Claire Booker, Claire Lynn, Clare Starling, Ellesar Elhaggagi, Elizabeth A Richter, Em Gray, Erica Borgstrom, Genevieve Carver, Ginger Strivelli, Helen Campbell, Jane Ayres, Jane Burn, Jane McLaughlin, Jessica Manack, Joanne Harris, JP Seabright, Julie-Ann Rowell, Karen F Pierce, Kavita A Jindal, Kim Whysall-Hammond, Lucy Lasasso, Marina Sanchez, Martha Patterson, Mary Mulholland, Rachel Playforth, Ruth Higgins, Sian Northey, Susan Bennett, Susan Cartwright-Smith, Tessa Lang, Tina Bethea Ray, Victoria Bailey, and Victoria Ekpo.
About the Author
Dr Catherine Pestano is a social worker and menopause activist. She has led two successful largescale workplace menopause programmes, for Croydon local authority and for the Open University, awarded two national diversity and innovation awards. Visiting Fellow at the Open University, she has authored on menopause for the OU Nursing programme. Cherry Potts is the author of an epic fantasy novel, The Dowry Blade, two collections of short stories: Mosaic of Air, and Tales Told Before Cockcrow; and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Cherry is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of almost all their anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival. Until recently she taught Creative Writing as a visiting lecturer at City, University of London.
Book Information
ISBN 9781913665852
Author Cherry Potts
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint Arachne Press
Publisher Arachne Press
Essential and powerful reading on menopause.
About the Author
Dr Catherine Pestano is a social worker and menopause activist. She has led two successful largescale workplace menopause programmes, for Croydon local authority and for the Open University, awarded two national diversity and innovation awards. Visiting Fellow at the Open University, she has authored on menopause for the OU Nursing programme. Cherry Potts is the author of an epic fantasy novel, The Dowry Blade, two collections of short stories: Mosaic of Air, and Tales Told Before Cockcrow; and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Cherry is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of almost all their anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival. Until recently she taught Creative Writing as a visiting lecturer at City, University of London.
Book Information
ISBN 9781913665852
Author Cherry Potts
Format Paperback
Page Count 100
Imprint Arachne Press
Publisher Arachne Press
