Fruitcake by Selima Hill Sasha Dugdale particularly in the striking and

particularly in the striking and ambitious ‘Women at a Christmas Party

and that great resistance movement

’ – David Cooke

from work rooted in unfamiliar landscapes to work written out of the innards of the language

inheritance and race

Fruitcake by Selima Hill Sasha Dugdale particularly in the striking andFruitcake brings together four poem sequences about motherhood by this brilliant lyricist of human darkness (Fiona Sampson). Bougainvillea explores love and having a mother. Nylon is about happiness, and not having or being a mother. Then Bunker Sacks brings grace but also the shock of being a young mother. Finally, Grunter shows the impact of Aspergers syndrome on both mother and child. Like all of Selima Hills books, Fruitcake charts extreme