Swell by Maria Ferguson Barbican Press linguistically deft

linguistically deft

‘Her diction spills out along ceaselessly shifting beds of sound

And there isn’t a single mention of You Know What

The houses and landscapes of childhood exert a strong presence in Silent in Finisterre

Swell by Maria Ferguson Barbican Press linguistically deftEloquent 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