Pam Galloway's memoir in poetry, Passing Strangers, recalls the complexities of a long marriage and motherhood, leading to pregnancy and eventually divorce after her 30-year marriage fails. The poems in Passing Strangers go inward as Galloway writes frankly about her desire for children through numerous miscarriages. This pattern of expectation and loss is broken with the arrival of two babies.

"The poems in this book were written in response to the obsession which overtook me as I longed for a child. They are written for all women who are struggling or have struggled with the most intimate and passionate of life experiences, becoming a mother. It is a topic which has long been overlooked as perhaps not being 'serious' or 'erudite' enough for poetry.";

"Divorce may well be another one. Yet more and more women in middle age and beyond are realizing their capacity for independence. They are finding strength in their ability to walk away from marriages which at best have grown cold and un-nourishing and, at worst, neglectful and abusive.";

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