{"product_id":"childhood-lore-paperback","title":"Childhood Lore - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKate Gough\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGirlhood Lore\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetry collection that enters the symbolic worlds we build as girls - dolls, fairy tales, saints, domestic rituals - and asks what they were really preparing us for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Gough writes with precision and restraint about girlhood, chronic illness, violence, survival, and the body as both archive and battleground. These poems draw on myth, folklore, and cultural memory, not to romanticise suffering, but to name it honestly. What emerges is a body of work that honours tenderness without softening its edges, and grief without turning it into spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the collection, familiar figures - Persephone, Ophelia, saints, dolls, witches - are re-examined through lived experience. Girlhood is presented not as innocence lost, but as a formative intelligence: a way of understanding danger, care, imagination, and endurance long before language was available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book for readers who recognise themselves in quiet resilience rather than triumph narratives. For those who live with illness, who have learned to navigate the world through intuition and adaptation, and for anyone interested in contemporary feminist poetry that refuses neat conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Sunday Mornings at the River, \u003cem\u003eGirlhood Lore\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that treats memory, myth, and the body with seriousness and respect - and trusts the reader to do the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53127094894899,"sku":"9789083389363","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/kAndwfUbTa9789083389363.webp?v=1773297603","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/childhood-lore-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}