After the birth of her two sons, Liz Berry could not write. Not only did she begin to feel that poetry was lost to her, she also couldn't find the sort of poems that she wanted to read - poems that spoke of the beautiful, heartbroken rawness of how she felt in those first days as a new mother. In 'Republic of Motherhood', she lets the reader into her darkest, most vulnerable and beautiful days, with a stunning ability to transform something of that tenderest experience into the most ravishing of poems.