Sunday's Child

In this powerful sequence of poems, Rebecca Bilkau writes from first hand experience of illegitimacy, its effects on both parent and child and the complex ways it has featured in her and her mother’s life. The social stigma of the age she was born into may give rise to a healthy disdain but, above all, these are poems of reconciliation and celebration, ‘the wanted unwanted child’ affirming survival and fulfilment.