Swell by Maria Ferguson Barbican Press ' The three collections see

' The three collections see him moving from despair to self-knowledge

‘Her diction spills out along ceaselessly shifting beds of sound

linguistically deft

Constantinos Hadzinikolaou

looks at the writer's Cypriot/British mixed heritage

Swell by Maria Ferguson Barbican Press ' The three collections seeEloquent 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