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Milk Fever
2018
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4.70
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"& the midwife then unhitches oceans from the sky & I am the blood of my first blood’s promise" In an extraordinary debut, Megan Ross writes the uneasy truths about unexpected motherhood and all its emotional detritus. In deftly and experimentally navigating the angst, joy and self-reckoning that comes with the choices and misadventures of young womanhood, this is a collection that brings together the evocative with the provocative, and the feminist with the personal, in a bold and startling poetic style. Hallucinatory, image-wet, and navigating the eternal tides of spirit and body, Milk Fever is a chimeric dreamscape in which a woman reconfigures, remembers and rebirths herself.

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Author

Megan Ross
Megan Ross
Author · 2 books
Megan Ross was born in Johannesburg in 1989. She is the author of a book of poems called Milk Fever (uHlanga Press), as well as several short stories and essays. She has won the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction and the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award. Megan was also a runner up for both the Short Story Day Africa Award and Short Sharp Stories Award and is also a PEN New Voices Award and Miles Morland Scholarship finalist. In 2019, Megan was a finalist for the Gerald Kraak Award in 2019, for her essay, 'Monstrous', which later went on to be included in an anthology that was a finalist for a Lambda (Lammy) Award. Her work has been featured in Catapult, Mail & Guardian, New Contrast, Glamour, GQ, Kalahari Review, the Johannesburg Review of Books, and The Good Trade. She is represented by Pontas Literary & Film Agency.
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