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Well now, it feels like I’ve waited a while to say this but…. YOU CAN NOW BUY MY BOOK!
I tried playing it cool about this. I lasted about five seconds. I am not cool about this. I am very, very delighted to finally be able to say: I wrote a little poetry pamphlet, a smashing indie publisher decided to publish it, and you can now buy it. You can buy it here.
"Helen Rice's poems are important: they're funny, honest and human."- Helen Mort, Poet and Novelist.
Step or ‘blended’ families are the fastest-growing family type in the UK, with an estimated one in three families now fitting this description. Yet throughout history and across cultures, from fairytales to Fleabag, the stepmother is rarely portrayed positively. Surely every stepmother can’t be wicked..?
In I’m Not Your Mother, writer and performer Helen Rice reflects on the experience of reaching middle age and being technically childless yet, in her roles as a stepmum and auntie, living a life that is certainly not childfree. These poems explore the feelings this complex identity has inspired alongside the effort, passion, disappointment and love that go into sustaining a delicate family ecosystem.