Cry

<p>In <em>Cry</em>, Katy Mahon writes from the blurred edges between motherhood and creativity – a place of contradictions, where chores and maternal routines deprive the poet of space to write, even as the joys of parenting provide constant inspiration for new art.</p><p>Her answer is to embrace it all, at once: readers will find poems of frustration, exhaustion and the fear of losing oneself, threaded with love, awe and the quiet astonishment of watching a child grow. In this way, constraint is revealed as a form of grace; restriction as a means to enable true expression.</p><p>Ultimately, the collection stands as both confession and celebration: an intimate portrait of the creative mother learning to breathe, to write, and to be.</p>