Swell

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 of daily life, Ferguson observes her body changing and charts a course through loss and wilting house plants, towards recovery, empowerment and renewal.