What Kind of Woman

Kate Baer's debut poetry collection, "Things My Girlfriends Teach Me," explores the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, challenging readers to consider their grandmother's cake, the taste of the sea, and the cool swill of freedom. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, marriages, and lives, and are those you share with your mother, daughter, sister, and friends.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 24 June 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

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Sunday Times. Exquisite. Fi Glover. A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play—mother, partner, and friend.

When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed. So ends Kate Baer's remarkable poem "Things My Girlfriends Teach Me."

In Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels, she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother's cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom.

In her poem "Deliverance" about her son's birth, she writes, "What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?"

Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Baer proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.

Weight: 260g
Dimension: 156 x 238 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398706828