She lives on the west coast of Ireland with her family.Ī radiant, meditative, truly powerful and beautiful book. She received an Arts Council Next Generation Award 2022/23. She edited Empty House: poetry and prose on the climate crisis. Her poetry pamphlet Sexy Fruit was a Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Selection. She studied English Literature and Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin. Intimate, warm, startlingly vivid and gentle, this is at once a delicate reflection on a moment of gigantic change in body and mind and a powerful, often painful confrontation of the politics of a country so deeply unsure about its women.Īlice Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1993, and raised in Co. Set against the backdrop of a seemingly changed Ireland, in Milk Alice draws for us her own map of motherhood, a crucial reflection spanning nine months of pregnancy and the first nine months of her child's life. How does this country treat its mothers? What does it mean to be forever tethered? Forever in love? For the first time, she considered the experiences of her mother, her grandmother, and the generations of women who came before them.
With her body struggling to recover, darker intrusions ran through the days and nights of new motherhood. And soon Alice's world began to expand and contract in ways she could never have imagined.
Into this warm cocoon, this big, empty house, would arrive a little baby. Alice Kinsella was in her mid-twenties when she became pregnant with her first child, newly engaged and about to embark on a life in an unfamiliar town on the west coast of Ireland.
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