My mum and other poemsFrom one of the UK's leading performance poets, this collection celebrates the very best types of mum, including mum as gamer, party animal, slob and free spirit. Inspired by Laura Dockrill's own experiences of childhood and motherhood, these poems will make you laugh and celebrate the wonder of mums.

Between Penelope's many suitors

For as long as we've studied the mind

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With the police closing in

The young Mary Churchill was uniquely placed to observe this remarkable historical moment

in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England

the Central Archive wasn't yet the greatest repository of knowledge in the known world

and her companions have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language

She launched OneCoin

said in all kinds of tones - laughs

But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s

The rebel leader Boudica has tasted victory