Though she has lived in London and now lives in Birmingham.Īccording to Ben Wilkinson in The Guardian she writes “chameleonic verse of ventriloquising playfulness, reported dialect, memorable imagery and often ballad-like musicality. Her Black Country poems are rooted in place, in the West Midlands, a heartland of iron foundries, coal mines and steel mills, where she was born. Liz Berry’s extraordinary debut collection, Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014. Her debut collection, Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014. Liz works as the assistant poetry editor at Ambit magazine. Her pamphlet The Patron Saint of Schoolgirls was published by Tall Lighthouse in 2010. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2009, an Arvon-Jerwood Mentorship in 2011 and won the Poetry London competition in 2012. I’d recommend this.Liz Berry was born in the Black Country and now lives in Birmingham. I’m not a mother, yet but I still found the poems relatable. The poems explore all the facets of motherhood. The title poem is amazing and I can see why it’s won awards. If anything, it’s too short and I wish it had been double the length as I was enjoying reading it so much. I chose The Republic of Motherhood at random from available titles. THE REPUBLIC OF 12 July 2018, ebook, 32 pages, borrowed from via GET A COPY I crossed the border into the Republic of MotherhoodĪnd found it a queendom, a wild queendom. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times – when a new life arrives, and everything changes. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days.
In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood.
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