THE REPUBLIC OF MOTHERHOOD [First edition - pamphlet]

Liz Berry

ISBN 10: 1784742678 / ISBN 13: 9781784742676

Published by Chatto & Windus [an imprint of Vintage / Penguin Random House], London, 2018

About this Item

First impression of the true first edition, with the complete number string on the printer's page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. A paperback original (PBO) pamphlet. ***A very good copy in dark-blue stapled card covers with French-flaps, with gilt titles and decoration on the front and back covers. The covers are clean and unmarked, but with some rubbing at the edges and a little creasing at the spine. No tears. No bumps. Corners sharp. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No marks, creases or tears. Paper stock clean - just slightly tanned. ***26 pages. 170 mm x 123 mm. ***'In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times - when a new life arrives, and everything changes.' [Quote taken from the front flap. ***'Liz Berry (born 1980) is a British poet. She has published two pamphlets and one full-length poetry collection. Her poetry collection, "Black Country", was named poetry book of the year by several publications, including The Guardian.' [Wiki] ***'I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.' ***A true first edition, first impression of this small pamphlet. Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE REPUBLIC OF MOTHERHOOD [First edition - pamphlet]
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus [an imprint of Vintage / Penguin Random House], London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784742678
• ISBN 13: 9781784742676
• Binding: Original Wraps
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • A002 - Recent Literature
  • A001 - Recent First Editions
  • Collectable Paperbacks

About this title

Synopsis

*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*

‘I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood
and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.’

In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times – when a new life arrives, and everything changes.

About the Author

Liz Berry is an award-winning poet and author of the critically acclaimed collections Black Country (Chatto, 2014); The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto, 2018); The Dereliction (Hercules Editions, 2021) a collaboration with artist Tom Hicks; and most recently The Home Child (Chatto, 2023), a novel in verse. Liz’s work, described as “a sooty soaring hymn to her native West Midlands” (Guardian), celebrates the landscape, history and dialect of the region. Liz has received the Somerset Maugham Award, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Forward Prizes. Her poem ‘Homing’, a love poem for the language of the Black Country, is part of the GCSE English syllabus. Liz is a patron of Writing West Midlands and lives in Birmingham with her family.