Swell

<b>‘There is an honesty that is both heart-breaking and more hopeful than anything else I've read on this subject. She makes me weep and wonder in equal measure’ Hollie McNish</b><p><br><b>Eloquent and uncompromising, <i>Swell </i>explores the triumphs and hardships of the journey to new motherhood – through pregnancy, miscarriage, birth and beyond</b><br><br> <i>In the consultation room I stared</i><br> <i>at the purple flowers in their purple<br> vase and imagined my insides:<br> an ocean, a cave, a storm.</i><br><br> Maria Ferguson’s second poetry collection is a raw and powerful documentation of one woman’s experience of becoming a mother. Against a backdrop of the sounds and sensations of daily life, Ferguson observes her body changing and charts a course through loss and wilting house plants, towards recovery, empowerment and renewal.<br><br>Tender, direct and winningly witty, Swell navigates the complexities of family and domesticity, exploring the contending weight and levity felt in this thrillingly unfamiliar new chapter. Ferguson is a poet as alert to the absurd as to the shattering, and these are large-hearted poems, full of life and thought. Together, they invite the reader to join them in a search for self-acceptance, for freedom from shame, and for a path to stability in increasingly uncertain times.<br></p>