"Mirror, mirror on the wall," the old joke says. "I am my mother after all." But which? Born in 1938 and adopted soon after, Kate Foley grew up in London during WWII. The Don't Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions. An absorbing account of the legacy of being an adopted child. Forthright and tender, this moving sequence reflects Foley's unflinching gaze into the mirror in a sometimes excoriating attempt to discern traces of her belonging and to make peace with the past. Joy Howard, poet, publisher and former fostering services manager.
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Kate Foley
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No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book : An Anthology of Spiderlit for Arachne's Eighth Anniversary
Jennifer A McGowan, David Mathews, Sarah Lawson, Kate Foley, Maria Kyle, J A Hopper, Elizabeth Hopkinson
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The Other Side of Sleep : Narrative Poems
Kate Foley, Adrienne Silcock, Alwyn Marriage, Angela France, Anne Macaulay, Bernie Howley, Brian Johnstone, Carl Griffin, Cathy Bryant, Elinor Brooks, Emma Lee, Geraldine Green, Inua Ellams, j. lewis, Jennifer A. McGowan, Jeremy Dixon, Jill Sharp, Judi Sutherland, Math Jones, Sam Small, Sarah Lawson, Simon Brod
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A Gift of Rivers
Kate Foley
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The Don't Touch Garden
Kate Foley
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Liberty Tales
Katy Darby, Kate Foley, Liam Hogan, Sarah Evans, Helen Morris, David Mathews, Elinor Brooks, Jeremy Dixon, Anna Fodorova, Richard Smyth, Bernie Howley, Andrew McCallum, Alison Lock, David Guy, Jim Cogan, Nick Rawlinson, Owen Townend, Cassandra Passarelli, Carolyn Eden
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