Name: The Republic of Motherhood
SKU: 9781784742676
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Liz Berry

After the birth of her two sons, Liz Berry could not write. Not only did she begin to feel that poetry was lost to her, she also couldn’t find the sort of poems that she wanted to read – poems that spoke of the beautiful, heartbroken rawness of how she felt in those first days as a new mother. In ‘Republic of Motherhood’, she lets the reader into her darkest, most vulnerable and beautiful days, with a stunning ability to transform something of that tenderest experience into the most ravishing of poems.

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*’The Republic of Motherhood’ Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*

‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood
and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’

In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times – when a new life arrives, and everything changes.

Additional information

Weight	32 g
Dimensions	16.8 × 11.6 × 0.2 cm
Author	Berry, Liz
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
Imprint	Chatto & Windus
Cover	Paperback
Pages	26
Language	English
Edition
Dewey	821.92 (edition:23)
Readership	General – Trade / Code: K