EVENT LINK: https://tinyurl.com/aj-akoto
July 13th, 2pm-3:30pm EST, Virtual, Free

In an intimate and unflinching collection, A J Akoto tracks the complex bind of mother-daughter relationships. Through separation and attempts to mend, longing, and the fluidity of myth/story-telling in defining histories and identities, she collapses the elision between womanhood and motherhood/daughterhood, bringing to the forefront that which usually remains unspoken.

Join us to celebrate AJ Akoto's phenomenal debut poetry collection Unmothered, published by Arachne Press, which explores the space inhabited by undutiful daughters, who really need to be able to leave their mothers behind. Using myth, especially Medea, as a way to be able to say the unsayable - sometimes, your mother is the monster you need saving from.

A J will read from the book, and there will be a Q&A.

ABOUT AJ AKOTO

AJ Akoto is a writer living and working in London. Unmothered is her first collection of poetry. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, with particular focuses in Latin literature, and Visual Culture.