Balancing Act Jan Owen It is a window onto

It is a window onto the world of a child who rejects convention and expectation

With contextualising essays by the editors

particularly the military’s massacre of hundreds of students taking part in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising

of a thousand spurs catches the sun

First published almost fifteen years ago

Balancing Act Jan Owen It is a window ontoThe fifteenth in Five Leaves' series of debut poetry pamphlets by East Midlands writers. These poems explore one woman's attempts to juggle the roles of daughter, mother, grandmother, carer and human being. Tracing her inheritance as a Presbyterian minister's daughter and her childhood in Northern Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s, Elizabeth Dunford examines family relationships and how they change, including the gradual reversal of roles as parents live