Real Cute Danger

<p><em>Real Cute Danger</em> Angela Cleland's third collection explores the experience of giving birth and becoming a parent through the prism of horror and science fiction. Poems like 'I'm in Costa with the other new mums again' deftly knock out the surfaces of a fake empire a coffee shop by comparing the setting with the realness of human flesh: I know what it is to be meat I am an animal in the wild I would be dead right now. Cleland claws away at the hysteria surrounding the female body in childbirth with her wildness and extravagant unflinching beauty.</p>