Her debut collection, Black Country (2014), was named poetry book of the year by several publications, including The Guardian.
[7] Following, The Republic of Motherhood, Berry collaborated with Black Country artist Tom Hicks on The Dereliction (Hercules Editions, 2021), a pamphlet of poems and photographs exploring their home region.
The Home Child was awarded the 2024 Folio Writers' Prize for Book of the Year Berry's writing is rooted in the landscape and dialect of the West Midlands.
In 2014, Ben Wilkinson in The Guardian summarized Black Country: "It digs deep into the poet’s West Midlands roots, enlivening and reimagining the heritage of that eponymous heartland of iron foundries, coal mines and steel mills, on both personal and public footings".
She is a patron of Writing West Midlands and in 2023 she was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by The University of Wolverhampton.