A mother's journey into abstraction

Using art as a writing prompt, plus my night as a performance poet (and the piece to read yourself)

Urban Doorway (2020) by Gail Seres-Woolfson

Having children has been the greatest disruption to my sense of identity – an ongoing reconfiguration of who I am, what I do and where I fit into this world. But there’s one identity I never thought would factor under the shape-shifting bracket of ‘me’ – and that is ‘performance poet’.

Yet, last weekend, I beca…