The House of Broken Things by Kim Moore Paul Hawkins In this way the stowaway’s

In this way the stowaway’s story and the telling of it merge in a fragmented

though nourished by a loving wife and the pleasures of the garden

cushioning their collisions with one another in tins or jars

Due out 27th March from Major Books UK

The House of Broken Things by Kim Moore Paul Hawkins In this way the stowaway’sShe's sleeping like a fairy tale girl, before the story teaches girls like her a lesson. In The House of Broken Things, motherhood is a spell, a terrible power, an intelligence, and transformative in all its complexity and ambivalence. These poems move like myth, invoking the ghosts of The House of Broken Things, where 'Broken mothers and damaged fathers slept the sleep of those who do not have time to think, and fractured children dreamt the things