Swell by Maria Ferguson BAME This is a book with

This is a book with a poetic voice that sings

based on the rhythms of ordinary speech

Together these poems catalogue the desires and fears that underlie our ordinary existences - love and heartbreak

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Swell by Maria Ferguson BAME This is a book withEloquent and uncompromising, Swell explores the triumphs and hardships of the journey to new motherhood through pregnancy, miscarriage, birth and beyond In the consultation room I stared at the purple flowers in their purple vase and imagined my insides: an ocean, a cave, a storm. 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