by Sophie Wilson | Aug 29, 2020 | Blog Post, Book Recommendations, Book Review
After reading Daisy’s novels ‘Everything Under’ and ‘Sisters’, I would best describe the world she creates as shadowy. It’s like stepping out in to the dark at night – things stop behaving predictably, there’s a lack of distinctness and outlines get blurry. I thought...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 24, 2020 | Book Review
Trigger warning: Sexual Abuse Powerful is the only word that I can use to describe this book. I finished the final page overwhelmed with emotion, and it is fair to say that it took me a while to be able to articulate my emotions about it. What Red Was follows the...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 14, 2020 | Book Review
The Moon Is Always Female is written by Marge Piercy. Having written seven poem anthologies, this is her seventh and is deemed the most wide-ranging of them all. I bought this collection of Piercy’s just under a year ago, discovering it deep in the crevices of a...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 6, 2020 | Book Recommendations, Book Review
I’ve been fascinated with Anais Nin for a long time. She published seven volumes of diaries (from 1931 – 1974), the most famous part being published as ‘Henry and June’, which explores her romantic relationships both with writer Henry Miller and his enigmatic wife...
by Sophie Wilson | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog Post, Book Review
Trigger Warning: Sexual Abuse. The Last Girl by Nadia Murad is a harrowing memoir. It is a painful read, but an important one nonetheless. It serves as a reminder that the effects of war are felt not only on the male dominated battlefield, but also in the surrounding...
by Sophie Wilson | Jul 25, 2020 | Book Recommendations, Book Review
‘But this is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s, and the poet will look upon their pain – the pain of women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men, slaves of men – and he will tell it or he will tell...
