In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for meaning in the contemporary world.

‘Motherlode is pregnant with fresh language and ideas, swelling with multiple notions of the ultimate creative active [and of] how much mater really matters.’ —Mandy Sayer

‘This wonderful collection of tart, dry, warm, impertinent and provocative voices and images is religious and secular … The anlaysis, the stories and the flashes of insight are invigorating. This is a substantial and engaging book, and a major contribution to feminist thought.’ —Moira Rayner

‘Motherlode … is a thought-provoking and serious work crafted with a wit and light-heartedness that is refreshing.’ —Lyndall Davies
‘[Motherlode] experiments with literary form and challenges the boundaries between academic and popular writing.’ —Fiona Capp

0908205112 220pp Territory: World All rights:Spinifex Press