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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014
*PBS Recommendation 2014*
‘When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me?’
In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems move from the magic of childhood – bostin fittle at Nanny’s, summers before school – into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings, and the promise of new life.
In Berry’s hands, the ordinary is transformed: her characters shift shapes, her eye is unusual, her ear attuned to the sounds of the Black Country, with ‘vowels ferrous as nails, consonants / you could lick the coal from.’ Ablaze with energy and full of the rich dialect of the West Midlands, this is an incandescent debut from a poet of dazzling talent and verve.
The First Poems in English (Penguin Classics) 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Being Alive 
Under Clouded Skies & Beauregard: Pens?es sous les nuages & Beauregard (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 5) 
Insistence 
Strong in the Rain 
Rumi's Little Book Of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit 
Poems of Childhood 
Dog Poems 
Imagine - John Lennon, Yoko Ono Lennon, Amnesty International illustrated by Jean Jullien 
Steep Tea