Liz Berry Poetry

Liz Berry is an English poet known for her award-winning collection “Black Country,” which celebrates her West Midlands heritage with vivid language and folklore. Her work, often infused with regional dialect, has earned her the Forward Prize and other accolades. She continues to explore themes of motherhood, identity, and landscape, with recent ventures into verse novels like “The Home Child.”

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Homing

‘Homing’ by Liz Berry is an inspirational and sometimes sad poem about identity and how individuals are forced to conform to societal norms.

Liz Berry is a contemporary British poet and this poem is a great example of her work. It explores themes like identity and relationships which are key in many of her poems. Her upbringing, in the Black Country of England is highly influential in this piece and through her two collections.

For years you kept your accent

in a box beneath the bed,

the lock rusted shut by hours of elocution

how now brown cow

the teacher’s ruler across your legs.

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