In The Lily Room by Erica Hesketh Dub poets both born and raised in

both born and raised in its shadow

Biddy Jenkinson – and others developed new possibilities for poetry in Irish in the 1970s and 80s

‘In this book of spells

Combining vivid

the fire is trustworthy’ (James Finley)

In The Lily Room by Erica Hesketh Dub poets both born and raised inErica Heskeths debut collection In the Lily Room tells a story of early motherhood. It examines a new mothers journey through mental illness, her relationships with her body, her baby and other people, and the often surreal landscape of mothering, against a backdrop of a changing and uncertain world. A dreamlike birth sequence full of eels, foxes and floodwater empties onto a London postnatal ward, where reality sets in. Rudderless and anxious, the