Swell by Maria Ferguson BAME based on the rhythms of

based on the rhythms of ordinary speech

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

Julia Bird

film history

three decades after being put up for adoption

Swell by Maria Ferguson BAME based on the rhythms ofEloquent 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