Breaking a Mare

Thatcher, Christina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0105-6797 2025. Breaking a Mare. Parthian Books.

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Abstract

Breaking a Mare is an investigation of silence, goodness and girlhood. It invites readers into the barn, the sawdust mill, the rodeo arena. These poems expose the hard work women do on farms, the loss of rural landscapes and the role death can play in these spaces. This book offers a unique perspective for readers (i.e. the intersection of farm life, horse riding, rodeo, womanhood and ecological awareness); an authentic voice (i.e. as a poet and academic with experience of riding and farm life); and a feminist approach, investing girlhood, goodness, women’s work and silence. Christina was awarded a Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary, supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council of Wales, for the purpose of researching and drafting the early poems in this collection.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Parthian Books
ISBN:	9781917140249
Last Modified:	06 Oct 2025 15:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/181463

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