There are many days
when I am so full of my new life
I could draw the biggest circle
with the tips of my fingers.
And other days
though fewer, thank the Lord (if there is one)
when I feel on the outside of myself
and desperately trying
to return to my inner security.
Whitfield grapples with monogamy and relationship breakdown against the backdrop of the women’s movement in the late Seventies, all in the form of a calendar.
“I started work on this set of poems in May 1976, whilst I was living through some vivid, almost hallucinatory experiences. The cartoon series was conceived as a visual diary, but it wasn’t until much later that the connection between the poems and cartoons was pointed out to me.”
