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Gillian K. Ferguson (born 1965) is a Scottish poet and journalist, born and living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the creator of Air for Sleeping Fish (Bloodaxe) [1] and the best-seller, Baby: Poems on Pregnancy, Birth and Babies (Canongate, 2001). [2]
The poems that compose this collection were based on her first two experiences of pregnancy and childbirth as she had her first two children 18 months apart. Discussing these topics in her poems made her cognizant of the fact that she had not previously read poems about these topics and that she was breaking a taboo.
The rhyme is followed by a note: "This may serve as a warning to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." [4]James Orchard Halliwell, in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842), notes that the third line read "When the wind ceases the cradle will fall" in the earlier Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784) and himself records "When the bough bends" in the second ...
To surprise their parents and grandparents with their second pregnancy, parents had their first daughter, Amaya, present them with a "Twas the Night Before Christmas" inspired book that announced ...
Teresa Makri (Τερέζα Μακρή), the subject of the poem, in 1870. " Maid of Athens, ere we part " is a poem by Lord Byron , written in 1810 and dedicated to a young girl of Athens . [ 1 ] It begins:
The image of La Madonna del Parto (English: Our Lady of Parturition) is a religious depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary as pregnant which was popularised in Tuscany, Italy during the 14th—century. Notable examples include works by Taddeo Gaddi , Bernardo Daddi and Nardo di Cione , but the fresco by Piero della Francesca in the Museum of ...
Ostriker began composing The Mother/Child Papers after the birth of her son, a few days following the shooting of four students at Kent State. [2] In the work, Ostriker chronicles her fears of bringing a son into the brutal modern world with so many expectations and pre-constructed notions of what makes a great man, especially during wartime.
"Lament for Lleucu Llwyd" (Welsh: Marwnad Lleucu Llwyd) is a Middle Welsh poem by the 14th-century bard Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen in the form of a cywydd.It is his most famous work, and has been called one of the finest of all cywyddau [1] and one of the greatest of all Welsh-language love-poems, [2] comparable with the best poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym. [3]