Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Vasily Kandinsky In their explorations of motherhood

In their explorations of motherhood

are all abiding pleasures of the work

begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite

and the possibility of renewing words such as ‘spirit’ and ‘soul’ in a materialist culture

where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws

Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi Vasily Kandinsky In their explorations of motherhoodJanette Ayachi's dazzling first collection moves between remembered and imagined spaces as she celebrates the world's variousness, and the energies and exhaustions of the body. Revelling in the many voices she might find for herself, Ayachi locates herself in both her Algerian and Scottish roots, her relationships with her family and lovers, her own motherhood, and an equally joyful but more precarious exploration of desire. More than anything, this