Rachael Matthews
![illustration showing a woman with blue skin covered in images, light blue leaves intertwine with pink flowers, a yellow sun on each breast.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Illustrated-Woman-by-Helen-Mort-320x225.jpg)
Finishing mummy’s pictures
Rachael Matthews reviews The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort (Chatto & Windus, 2022)
![Head and shoulders photo of Rachael. She has short brown hair and glasses. She has her baby daughter in a sling across her chest.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Rachael-Matthews-Castaway-320x225.jpg)
Castaway Companions
Castaway poet Rachael Matthews choses poems by Jennifer L Knox, Adrienne Rich, and Kathleen Jamie for her desert island stay
![three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Three-pamphlets-19-May-320x225.jpg)
Three pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf
Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham, Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Steven Payne, and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf