Swallows and Waves collects spare, attentive poems by Paula Bohince that probe what remains when a mother is absent and how small acts of care and technique reshape identity. Published by Sarabande Books in 2016, the book moves with quiet precision across domestic scenes and embodied memory.

The poems balance tenderness and craft: close, image-driven lines examine grief, apprenticeship, and the ways another's touch can return us to childhood. Bohince's language is direct yet layered, asking how attention itself—habit, ritual, and skill—becomes a form of repair.

Ideal for readers of contemporary lyric and domestic elegy, this 60-page paperback offers lucid, compact poems that linger after the page is closed.

• Themes: motherhood, loss, craft
• Tone: lyrical, precise, intimate
• Format: paperback, 60 pages

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