With Love, Grief and Fury
Publisher,Canongate
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Format, Hardcover
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No. of Pages, 240
Shelf: Fiction / Adult Fiction / Poetry
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With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet. Grief poems brimming with compassion, mourning what was and contemplating what could be. And poems of fire and fury that will kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change and hope.
Over thirty years after she first stormed the UK poetry scene, the trailblazing and award-winning writer Salena Godden has produced her most audacious and definitive collection to date. Like a big sister's arm around your shoulder, With Love, Grief and Fury is important and nourishing for the soul.
About the Author
Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet, memoirist and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage based in London. Her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People's Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Godden is one of the UK's foremost poets, often topping the bill at national and international literary events and festivals. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of West Dean, Sussex, and a patron of Hastings Book Festival.
Reviews
"Heartfelt and surreal, uncompromising and tender, Godden holds the poem in the palm of her hand like a hummingbird" —Joelle Taylor
"Sheer brilliance, every verse a revelation! This book belongs amongst the classics, and Godden herself is one of the greatest living British poets" —Nikita Gill
"Godden's verses are firing on all cylinders and display how she is a master at arriving at universal emotional truths. Revelatory and heart stopping" —Mona Arshi
"Like a heart turned inside out... joyous and utterly revelatory" —Evie Wyld
"In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound" —Heidi James-Dunbar
"This is a book I will return to over and over and over again, a book everyone should have on their shelf. Salena's poems are all at once intimate and tender, vast and powerful, compelling, funny, delightful, precise, and always always bursting with life" —Cecilia Knapp
Dimensions: 13.97 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm
