Ten Poems about Mothers by Slaney, Di

In this revised edition of our popular mini-anthology, there are poems celebrating all kinds of mothers. Theres the mother who cant help cooking for several hundred million imagined diners and the mother who tries to keep her childrens diet free of harmful additives. Theres also the mother with a special voice for reading bedtime stories and even a yodeling Mother Earth who tells tales and gossips.

In one poem, a mirror in the family home seems to contain the past, present and future:

the mother

who looks like me, who

smiles at herself in her

mothers mirror, the friendly

mirror in her mothers house.

from Mirror by Maura Dooley

What all the poems share is a sense of lasting love that flows through the years between mother and son or daughter, surviving the twists, turns and surprises of our lives.

Poems by Laurie Bolger, Maura Dooley, Jonathan Edwards, Joanna Ingham, Jackie Kay, DH Lawrence, Carmina Masoliver, Roy McFarlane, Caleb Parkin and John Siddique.

Cover illustration by Sara Boccaccini Meadows.

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ISBN 978 1 913627 72 0

First published 2011

Revised September 2019

Revised November 2025

24 printed pages (including endpapers)

Published on 18 November 2025 by Candlestick Press in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 24 pages
164 x 230 x 6 | 76g