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Let Me Carry That For You is a collection of poems that meditate on the complex relationship between maternity and family history. Both poignant and refreshing, McCracken’s verses swing from the darkness of generational guilt to the intoxicating joy of new life, from ecological mourning to the strange weight of unsolicited remarks from strangers. It is a thoroughly original and moving account of pregnancy, intergenerational memory and what it means to carry.

‘Shellshocked love, singing toads, an uncle’s wooden leg, riparian and volcanic bodies... the burden and weight of the things we bear and bring into the world are reconfigured as capacious objects of wonder.’ – Lila Matsumoto

‘A fascinating consideration of how the family tree might reach its branches right into the womb… these are poems that investigate while they love, and love while they generously invite us to learn.’ – JL Williams

‘Beautifully honed poems, delivered in a wonderfully mordant, moving, distinctive voice … so tender, so biting, a voice pregnant and birthing and uplifting, caught on shifting tides of dark political histories and welling in fragile local ecologies.’– Jane Goldman

‘This collection sings the intricate relationship between the natural world and the self; inheritance and new life with a self-assured elegance that brings an intimacy to the reader.’– Alice Tarbuck

Cover image credit: Ilana Halperin