Beyond proleptic pregnancy: Abortion and miscarriage in contemporary poetry

This chapter looks to a selection of contemporary US and UK poems about abortion and miscarriage which break with proleptic understandings of pregnancy and reads them as demands for better reproductive justice. Read collectively, such poems, by Holly Pester, Rachel Galvin, and Maya Marshall, employ...

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Main Author: Jennifer Cooke
Format: Default Book chapter
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/31314226.v1
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