Want - submitted by anonymous. Collected by Gillian Anderson

Want - submitted by anonymous. Collected by Gillian AndersonWhat do you want when no one is watching? Who do you fantasize about when the lights are off? When you think about sex, what do you really want? When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all. In this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous

Illustrated by the author

perfectly irrelevant

She hears his boat’s engine again and follows it

She's been here once before - but while the room hasn't changed

Packed full of prompts

Suddenly she could imagine a future for herself

on the one hand

Devotion is impossibly good' - Evie Wyld

will the truth push them further apart

Each page begins with a statement followed by an encouraging thought

long believed to be the cause of many of our problems

bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems