For Soldiers and Sailors Alike: Poems on the Familiar Wars of Womanhood

Carefully crafted to be both a requiem for and a celebration of the unique gifts and injuries of womanhood, For Soldiers and Sailors Alike is requisite poetry for our modern world. Murgatroyd Monaghan walks hand in hand with readers as they embark on a tour of combat that is at times painful, at times beautiful, and yet always hauntingly familiar. Using both traditional and contemporary forms of poetry, Monaghan opens readers' wounds alongside her own and then sews them back together again, ultimately stitching a literary patchwork that is as diverse and united as women are themselves. Each poem is a voice that refuses to relent, despite battlefields and oceans, as it decorates women for their unique forms of bravery. In the pages of this book, readers of all genders, backgrounds, and ages will be inspired to reclaim and view their own personal story in a more empowering way than they have ever been guided to see it before.

Author: Murgatroyd Monaghan
Publisher: Tellwell Talent
Published: 10/12/2022
Pages: 122
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780228865506

About the Author
Monaghan, Murgatroyd: - Murgatroyd Monaghan is a Canadian author and poet. Presently, she makes her home with her partner, three children, and two cats on the traditional territories of the Anishnaabeg in Northern Ontario, where she moved after settling in Toronto as a refugee in the nineties. Murgatroyd, or Troid, as she is affectionately known, has worked extensively to support the rights and comfort of birthing people, dying people, drug users, and those who make their homes in the urban or rural outdoors. She now lives a semi-nomadic lifestyle with her family, homeschooling her children as she endeavors to learn as much as possible through seeing natural wonders and meeting as many of the beautiful people of Earth as she can. She believes that storytelling is the most important way we can both teach and learn. Some of the things that have made her cry are the Aurora, the caribou migration, and when they're all out of maple dip donuts at Tim Horton's. Some of the things that excite her the most are words, the childbearing year, motherhood, listening to travelers' stories on Via Rail trains, quality of life, history, language, travel, music, and theatre. She is pretty sure she has an even better collection of sunglasses than Elton John, but she'd like to know for sure.

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