Thinking Egg
by Jacqueline Brown
Winner of the Published 1992 Arvon/Observer International Poetry Competition
...I'm a woman thinking egg
and staggering under its weight.
Thus Jacqueline Brown concludes her memorable and moving sequence of poems on female infertility.
...the poet has a story to tell and is telling it with flair and imagination, not merely inviting sympathy. At best, she succeeds in objectifying her predicament as few contemporary poets can.
It's easy to see why the judges... chose [this] as the winning entry. In subject and theme it's both solidly traditional and excitingly innovative. It is the work of a woman who has not just lived, but who has watched what was happening to her and to other people while she was doing it.
Paperback
44 pages
ISBN 0 946407 89 4
Published January 1993