“White Ink”, is borrowed from Hélène Cixous’ metaphor for mother’s milk, a metaphor that grounds women’s writing in the female body.

White Ink is a rare and unique anthology of poems on the theme of mothers. Beginning with a comprehensive critical introduction by editor and poet Rishma Dunlop, this book explores the changing role of the mother in contemporary society by bringing together diverse poetic voices – female, male, Canadian and international.

Poets include:

Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, Samuel Menashe, Marilyn Hacker, Alicia Ostriker, Eavan Boland, Adrienne Rich, Daphne Marlatt, Lorri Neilsen, Susan Holbrook, Anne Fisher-Wirth, Sharon Olds, Mahmoud Darwish, Annie Finch, John Barton, John Terpstra, Priscila Uppal, Christopher Doda, Judith Arcana, and Ann Compton.

Rishma Dunlop is the winner of the 2003 Emily Dickinson Award. She is the author of three books of poetry: Metropolis (Mansfield Press, 2005), Reading Like a Girl (Black Moss Press, 2004) and The Body of My Garden (Mansfield Press, 2002). Rishma is also co-editor of Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets (Mansfield Press, 2004), and her work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines. She is a professor of literature and education at York University in Toronto, Canada.