Balancing Act Jan Owen The poems introduce us to

The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape

"Some writers leave their creative handprints in dark caves where only later happenstance may

of a thousand spurs catches the sun

It is a window onto the world of a child who rejects convention and expectation

Balancing Act Jan Owen The poems introduce us toThe fifteenth in Five Leaves' series of debut poetry pamphlets by East Midlands writers. These poems explore one woman's attempts to juggle the roles of daughter, mother, grandmother, carer and human being. Tracing her inheritance as a Presbyterian minister's daughter and her childhood in Northern Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, Elizabeth Dunford examines family relationships and how they change, including the gradual reversal of roles as parents live