In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning

Describes the life and times of Thomas Coram and his goal of establishing a safe refuge for abandoned babies in the early 1700s.

"At the Foundling Hospital considers the foundling soul: its need to be adopted, and its need to be adaptive. These poems reimagine identity on the scale of one