Poems for the Speed of Life

Ep. 89: "Something wonderful has happened it is called you" by Emily Critchley

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This is Episode 89 of Poems for the Speed of Life.

Today's poem is "Something wonderful has happened it is called you" by Emily Critchley.

Emily Critchley is a Greek-born English poet, writer, editor and academic. She is the author of Ten Thousand Things and editor of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK and co-editor of #MeToo, A Poetry Collective.

Critchley is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.

This poem "Something wonderful has happened it is called you" — about motherhood and the future — was a "Highly Commended Poem" in the Forward Book of Poetry 2019.

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