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# One Page Demo Site

## About Hannah

Hannah Brockbank was born in South Yorkshire, but grew up in West Sussex. Between 2001-2004 she read English at the University of Chichester. She then pursued a career in librarianship and studied for an MSc Econ in Information and Library Studies at the University of Aberystwyth. In 2013, she returned to the University of Chichester to undertake an MA in Creative Writing. In 2016 she achieved a Distinction and was awarded the Kate Betts’ Memorial Prize. She continued her studies at the University of Chichester and has a Ph.D in English and Creative Writing. Her research interests include: the artistic embodiment of mothering, matrifocal poetry, maternal narratives, motherwork, birth trauma, matricentric feminism, material culture, object-centred engagement and the creative process, and the poetry of Vicki Feaver. She is part of the editorial board for the Journal of Mother Studies (JourMS), a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open-access digital humanities hybrid project which is devoted to the issues, experiences, topics, history, and culture of mothers, mothering and motherhood. She writes, paints, and lives with her husband and two children near the South Downs. Author photograph by [Natalie Miller](http://www.nmphoto.co.uk/).

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## Bloodlines

Bloodlines is a collection of poems that explore a woman’s experience of growing up without a father. The collection is chronologically arranged, beginning in childhood and continuing into adulthood. Bloodlines engages with themes of loss, abandonment, memory, landscape, cultural disinheritance, and biological inheritance.

Available to order [here](http://www.indigodreams.co.uk/hannah-brockbank/4594114544).

> ‘Brockbank makes concrete the absence of a father she’s never known in a series of vividly imagined poetic encounters. The poems are elegant, imagistic and finely tuned to love and loss. Most importantly, her poetry packs an emotional punch that resonates beyond an individual’s story. A wonderful new voice.’
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> Stephanie Norgate
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> ‘This is a book about an absent father, but its metaphors explore a range of distances, not only those within a family, but also the distances that we have put between ourselves and the natural world. Bloodlines skilfully deploys folklore and history and marks the arrival of a talented poet.’
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> David Swann

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## Publications

summary of where you have been published

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