The Song of the Whole Wide World, 9781911648734
Paperback
A mother’s grief, a baby’s life: a lyrical, heartbreaking journey.

The Song of the Whole Wide World

on grief, motherhood and poetry

$28.17

  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    31 May 2024

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Summary

The Song of the Whole Wide World: A Memoir of Love and Loss

An extraordinary memoir of anticipatory grief, seventy-two minutes of life and a silent maternity leave, from artist and academic Tamarin Norwood.

A few months into pregnancy, Tamarin Norwood learned that the baby she was carrying would not live. Over the sleepless weeks that followed, Tamarin, her husband and their three-year-old son tried to navigate the unfamiliar waters of anticipatory sorrow and to prepare for …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781911648734
ISBN-10:191164873X
Author:Tamarin Norwood
Publisher:The Indigo Press
Imprint:The Indigo Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:31 May 2024
Weight:100g
Dimensions:111mm x 178mm
About The Author

Tamarin Norwood

Dr Tamarin Norwood is a writer and academic with a background in fine art. She has written on drawing, metaphor, memorial and grief, and has an interest in ritual and rural history. She is a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, a visiting fellow at the University of Bath Centre for Death and Society, and a Leverhulme research fellow at Loughborough University.

In 2021 she won The Lancet Wakley Essay Prize for her essay Something Good Enough. She lives and works in Northamptonshire.

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