Second piece of third section:

I am all

I am food
I am drink
I am comfort
I am security I am warmth
I am love
I am your mother

NIK HARRIS

This is a collection of art, poetry and short prose pieces on motherhood, that I picked up for free at Novacon in 2021. It was sponsored by the British branch of La Leche League,so there’s a not very subtle emphasis on breastfeeding, but in general it’s a nice assembly of pieces of varying quality, speaking to the experience of maternity, which is designed to be an appropriate gift to a new mother. One aspect that is left out is the experience of parents of children with special needs. It is basically out of print, but you can probably get Musings on Mothering here.

Because I picked it up at a science fiction convention, I initially classified it as the sf book that had lingered longest unread on my shelves, but now that I have actually read it, I realise that there is no sfnal content, and I will count it as poetry, which takes up about three quarters of the book.

The next long-unread sf book on my shelf is another that I picked up at that Novacon, Howul: A Life’s Journey, by David Shannon, who is married to Bernardine Evaristo.