Name: Letters to My Mother By Bashabi Fraser
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Letters to My Mother: and other mothers by Bashabi Fraser

A collection of poetry on the themes of motherhood, empowerment, love and loss by acclaimed poet who has published three collections previously.

> Drawing on her Indian and British life experience, Fraser engages with hard-hitting current issues such as rape culture in India, climate change and war. A son questions his mothers love after she has learned about his violent deeds. The biblical Eve is shown as a liberator. A daughter of India demands justice from her society.

Letters to My Mother Reviews

There is a wonderful conversational ease in the writing, with mother and child sharing their feelings about music, art, love and politics, but the poems are always delicately and lyrically crafted. STEPHEN REGAN, Professor of Poetry at the University of Durham

About Bashabi Fraser

BASHABI FRASER is a critic, poet, editor, childrens writer and translator. She was born in West Bengal in India. Bashabi divides her life between the two countries she loves most India and Britain. Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, she is the winner of Rabindra Bharati Society Honour 2014, Women Empowered: Art and Culture Award 2010 and IAS Prize for Literary Services in Scotland 2009. She has written for many publications, has three other collections of poems in print and has been included in a number of anthologies. Bashabi has also written childrens stories as well as a shadow puppet play and a book on the Bengal Partition and is also a classical Indian dancer and choreographer. She now lives in Edinburgh with her husband and has one daughter.

Contents
Acknowledgements 8
Introduction 9

Letters to My Mother
I saw you last night 17
The things you did for us 18
I will remember you 19
If I could bring you back 20
The boy from Chittagong 21
Thundering hooves 22
The flower thieves 23
The hesitant flowers 24
In London where you were 25
St Georges Hospital 26
The speeding car 27
The planned journey 28
A confluence 29
A presence in absence 30
Frozen frolic 31
An Icelandic Saga: i 32
An Icelandic Saga: ii 33
Climate refugees 34
As Europe debates Turkeys entry 36
Japans triple jeopardy 37
The British barricade of snow 38
Neros Guests 39
Camp Hope 40
Liu Xiaobo 42
Arab Spring 44
Arab Women 45
St Augustines Church 47
Medical Aid for Palestine 48
Women vote in Jalalabad 50
Darkling I listen 51
Anoushka in Usher Hall 53
Your granddaughter in London 54

Interlude
She was my mother 56

Letters to Other Mothers
Mothers All 59
Brazenly in cafes 60
You cannot silence me 61
Abandoned: i 62
Restored: ii 63
Urban Gothic: London during World WarII 64
Eve: the liberator 65
She 66
My Aunt Marge 72
My Monimashi 74
Shamsad Rahim 78
A breaker 79
The Song of a Gypsy 80
Living Joy 82
Laure 85
Who was the boy? 86
Will you remember me? 88
Awakening 91
Light where the sun sets 93
Light a candle for me 95
I am your daughter 98
Rupsha 101
For Nisha and Ben on your wedding day 103
To Tithi on your wedding day 106
Mariam 108
Bhopal now 110
I am that child 111

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NPB9781910745144

ISBN 13

9781910745144

ISBN 10

1910745146

Title

Letters to My Mother: and other mothers by Bashabi Fraser

Author

Bashabi Fraser

Condition

New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Luath Press Ltd

Year published

2015-10-15

Number of pages

119

Prizes

N/A

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