Released September 30th, 2025 // 152 pages // 978-1-917617-29-1 // RRP: £12.99 / $17.99 / €15.99
 
Anna Brook’s Motherhood: A Ghost Story is an unguarded, lyrical excavation of the thresholds between presence and absence, memory and immediacy, selfhood and care. Rendered in the space between poetry and prose, Brook traces the spectral nature of early motherhood: how the body is unmade and remade, how time dissolves and reforms, and how past and present flicker in and out of alignment. Layered with literary echoes and visceral sensory detail, this work defies easy categorisation, existing in the liminal space between memoir, poetry, and philosophical meditation.  
 
ABOUT Anna Brook:
Anna Brook is a writer and lecturer; they recently completed a PhD in creative life writing at Kingston University. Anna’s prose/poetry practice centres around the complexity and ambivalence of motherhood experience, haunting and failure, and the ways in which we attempt to express the ineffable. They have published broadly within maternal studies and as a poet. Anna is currently a guest editor of Studies in the Maternal journal and co-founder of the Visceral Bodies research network.