Cry
Cry
Katy Mahon
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In Cry, Katy Mahon writes from the blurred edges between motherhood and creativity – a place of contradictions, where chores and maternal routines deprive the poet of space to write, even as the joys of parenting provide constant inspiration for new art.
Her answer is to embrace it all, at once: readers will find poems of frustration, exhaustion and the fear of losing oneself, threaded with love, awe and the quiet astonishment of watching a child grow. In this way, constraint is revealed as a form of grace; restriction as a means to enable true expression.
Ultimately, the collection stands as both confession and celebration: an intimate portrait of the creative mother learning to breathe, to write, and to be.
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Imprint: Valley Press
Published: December 2025
ISBN: 9781915606778
Catalogue no: VP0259
Page count: 42
Trim size: 216 x 140 mm
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Praise for Cry:
“What pleasure to encounter these vivid, intimate, beautiful poems, negotiating motherhood and creative liberty, love and independence. This is exquisitely wrought work – both physical and philosophical, moving and fiercely intelligent in equal measure. Katy Mahon is a rare and original talent.”
— Kathryn Gray
“These are poems which exist in the push and pull of experience and imagination, pain and delight, exhaustion and exhilaration; between the roles of parent and non-parent. Cry is intensely moving – a vital and revitalising collection.”
— Antony Dunn
“Katy Mahon’s Cry is unafraid to go to the raw and ‘deep places’ of early motherhood. Tender and intimate, here are poems where love is as immediate as the child’s cry from the other room, and home is a place of exhaustion and wonder gathered at the same table.”
— Enda Wyley
About the author
Katy Mahon is an Irish musician and poet, brought up in London and now living in York. Her poems have appeared in a range of Irish and English journals, including The Irish Independent, The Honest Ulsterman, SurVision Magazine and The Galway Review. Her debut pamphlet, Some Indefinable Cord, was published by Dreich in 2022.