大象传媒

When Belfast poet Gail McConnell's son was growing in her partner's womb, Gail was writing poems exploring what it means to be a non-biological parent in a same-sex relationship.

Gail's poem 'Untitled/Villanelle' lets go of the binaries of motherhood and fatherhood and imagines the roles in more fluid terms, as a parent with a bit of both - a Fothermather. We meet Gail, her partner Beth and their son Finn as Gail finds language for a family structure we don't have words for yet.

Producer: Conor Garrett