No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book Alice Miller carve out a mud poem

carve out a mud poem

yet they’re suffused with the hard-won wisdom that the communities we build can be as meaningful as the families we’re born into

slender and pale/for moments

indomitably modern and as undestructible as the phoenix

terror attacks and climate change

No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book Alice Miller carve out a mud poemBack in September 2019, Arachne Press were inspired by Lady Hale and her infamous spider brooch. They then realised that they were coming up to their 8th Anniversary in August 2020. What better way to celebrate than with a book of spider related stories and poems? Poets and authors from around the world responded in astonishing numbers to their call out for work that celebrates the spider, and in which the spider survives, triumphs, and provides a