A bedroom of searchlights : poems / by Joanna M. Weston.

The poems in this collection explore the life of the poet's mother who divorced in 1939, at a time when a woman divorcing was still frowned upon by society. This collection draws a picture of the artist and single mother who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.

Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Also By; Dedication; Contents; Meeting Today; From East to West; I Know She; Her Sketch-Book; Pages and Pages; Across the World; The Dog; Fidelity; Background of Flowers; Wartime Parent; To Find; Divorced; Forgetting; Birth-Home; Knots; Loss; Raising Children; Embroidery; Embarrassed; Vanilla; Relatives; The Storyteller; Her Bas-relief Silver Belt Buckle; For Guests; Weekly; Every Summer; Keeping; Necessities; Pencil Sketches; The Spinet; For the Present; By the Fire; An Old Dress; Ever-Present; Eccentric; Interruption; Child on the Chair; Rainbows

A Curious DomesticityGhosts in the House; Art Exhibition; Her Garden; Summer and Winter; The Loneliness; The Person on the End; The Lady Who Sat for Her Portrait; Freezing Time; In Colour; Turning Inward; Lament; Waiting for the Flight; Woman Behind Glass; Buried Secrets; In An After-Life; Thread of Motherhood; Ledgers; Two Ghosts; Funeral for Three; Unmatched Colours; The Last Painting; Legacy; An Old Photo; Under a Yew; Mother Is My Age; Disappeared; The Last Wave; Acknowledgements

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