History of the Child by Penelope Shuttle Simon Rennie ' Sylvia Plath

' Sylvia Plath

one must go sideways

” —Sophie Collins

As ‘thunder djinns the air’

He is the editor of We Still Use Poetry: The 2nd Quarterly Anthology of Contemporary Poetry in the Margins

History of the Child by Penelope Shuttle Simon Rennie ' Sylvia PlathPenelope Shuttle's History of the Child is a highly evocative exploration of childhood, memory, and imagination, blending personal and historical perspectives. The book's themes include parenting, grief, nature, emotional recovery and connections to the past, guided by the idea of childhood as a transformative and rebellious space. The first of the book's four sections features poems about Katherine of Aragon, the Vestal Virgins, Stanley Spencer and