The Republic of Motherhood

Sure to be a comfort to many new mothers, a salve to the soul during a time of huge change

Evening Standard

An electrifying collection of poems that makes your heart sing

Jessie Burton, The Daily Telegraph

The Republic of Motherhood gives us poems of the greatest importance... This is writing to carry round with you, a pamphlet to open in a schoolroom, a hospital, on a train, in a street, and share its words, its great life and its love, with everyone you can

The Poetry School

There was an electric charge to this pamphlet... It’s a pamphlet of love in darkness, full of poems which have something of the holy relic about them

Judges, Michael Marks Award

Alongside the tender, heart-breaking moments, there's humour and a visceral energy. These poems transport you, there's something primal in their intimacy... Berry doesn't hold anything back with this collection, its beauty lies in her willingness to embrace the unspoken, the hidden...the wisdom and insight within its pages to be passed around amongst those finding their way into their new identity

Degna Stone

Raw and beautiful

Emma Jane Unsworth, Guardian

The Republic of Motherhood is a brilliant reflection of what it's like to become a mum and those first exhausting months

Rae Howells, author of THE LANGUAGE OF BEES

A beautifully presented pamphlet of poems about becoming a mother

Daily Telegraph