All Grown Up Now

<p>This collection of poems opens up a crack in the lining of a poet's life to show what it was like to grow up in a family in the decades after the war how it shapes the individual what they learn and keep in their heart the rituals and routines that are handed down the generations.</p><p><br></p><p>These poems not only take us back in time to a childhood in the sixties teenage-hood in the seventies and motherhood in the eighties they also take us through the life of a poet showing us how our upbringing stays with us influences us and shapes the individual.</p>