From the gentle rivers of Shropshire to the heat-baked seas of Greece, Daughter of the Sun radiates with mothers and tracks our orbits around them.
Split into two parts, a sonnet sequence recounts Spence's time reconnecting with her estranged mother - caring for her through illness and grieving her passing - before a bold rewriting of the myths around Medea reimagines her not as a murderous witch but a child-free scientist ahead of her time.
With the power and salve of the natural world always close by, Daughter of the Sun contends with being a mother and a daughter, and also what it means to liberate ourselves of those identities and write our own myths full of freedom and possibility.
| ISBN: | 9781915628343 |
| Publication date: | 13th February 2025 |
| Author: | Rachel Spence |
| Publisher: | The Emma Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 66 pages |
| Series: | Poetry Collections |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Ancient Greek religion and mythology Ancient Greek and Roman literature Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |