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"What goes on in these four walls is none of their concern, shut your mouth and keep it shut is what you need to learn..." MUMB: a personal exploration of the dark side of motherhood and what it means to be a woman. "To read MUMB is to sit at a rickety northern kitchen table with an old mate, as she shares the intimacies and heartaches of being a woman of a certain age, doing her best and sometimes failing; of striving, coping, suffering and surviving. While you scoff cinnamon buns and try to ignore the smell of the unemptied cat litter. It is a book full of love and honesty." - Julie Hesmondhalgh "Cathy Crabb cuts through the Gordian knot and makes it get over itself with salty chips and a hug. Satisfyingly forthright, authentically working class and funny, you'll recognise chunks of human nature you didn't know you knew." - Jackie Hagan "This wonderful collection of poetry is a generous and honest plateful of love. Cathy Crabb writes beautifully, feels deeply and is not afraid to share the darker sides of being a mother." - Janice Connolly AKA Mrs Barbara Nice "Like its title this collection is intriguing - it's initially simple but says a lot! There's variety, plays on words, haiku, it's personal and universal, simple but deep. It's full of love - celebratory - and full of truth - disturbingly. "There's frost in every cardboard fold." There's warmth in every page turn. Although this collection is centred around motherhood, it is a must read for anyone who was ever a child! I own many poetry collections on my shelves. This one will be staying well within arms reach!" - Joy France

Cathy Crabb is an award-winning playwright and poet who has written extensively for the stage. Her plays include Beautiful House, Moving Pictures, Something Right, Beyond the 4th Wall and The Bubbler, and her collaboration with Punam Ramchurn, Rumba Bar, premiered in 2018. She has also co-written two musicals with Lindsay Williams and Carol Donaldson, Dreamers and Meat Pie, Sausage Roll. Cathy's poetry features on sculptures by Emma Hunter at the former site of Elk Mill in Chadderton, the last mill to be built in Lancashire.