*PRE-ORDER * Flanked By Jo Eades
£7.50
***PRE-ORDER*** Release date October 2025
From the horrors of toddler classes to the complexities of grief, Flanked is a smorgasbord of maternal experience and emotion. A scrutiny of motherhood across generations and an exploration of loss as both heart-wrenching and liberating.
Tinged with doubt, regret, guilt, acceptance, joy and love, Flanked captures the intricate dynamics of mother / daughter relationships — where roles morph and history repeats.
A reflection on letting go and looking forward.
Jo's debut pamphlet will be out in October 2025.
Jo Eades performs regularly on the Bristol spoken word scene. In 2023, she performed on the Milk Poetry stage at Valleyfest and was selected as one of eight emerging poets from the South West to be part of Apple and Snakes’ Future Voices project. In 2024 she was the Lyra Bristol Poetry Slam Champion and won the Hip Yak Poetry Shack Slam at WOMAD Festival. In 2025 she featured at Keynsham Music Festival, won the Ledbury Poetry Festival Slam and came fourth in the England SLAM! Championships.
She has been featured four times on BBC Radio Bristol’s Upload, being one of their ‘best of’ poets for 2024.
“With a lightness of touch, this collection explores the joy, frustration and complexities of being both a mother and a daughter, and how these experiences are inextricably tethered to each other"
Malika Kegode
