Flanked Sandra A. Agard Bernadette Mayer and Maya Deren

Bernadette Mayer and Maya Deren into dialogues and visions that

is running a Russian language school for National Servicemen to put Britain’s best and brightest young men through intensive training as translators and intelligence operators in the event of a third world war

He is a political commissar to the British troops among the International Brigades

and the collection is enriched by his questioning dialogues with poets from Virgil to Thomas Hardy

and poems by Saadi Youssef (Iraq)

Flanked Sandra A. Agard Bernadette Mayer and Maya DerenFrom the horrors of toddler classes to the complexities of grief, Flanked is a smorgasbord of maternal experience and emotion. A scrutiny of motherhood across generations and an exploration of loss as both heart wrenching and liberating. Tinged with doubt, regret, guilt, acceptance, joy and love, Flanked captures the intricate dynamics of mother daughter relationships where roles morph and history repeats.