With Love, Grief and Fury

(Hardback, Main)

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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.

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'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

'In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound' - HEIDI JAMES-DUNBAR

'Salena writes poetry I want to hug. This book is so hopeful, so full of life' - BABS GON

'A bittersweet collection that takes on the big themes without losing sight of the tiny details, those small everyday miracles that make life worth living . . . Uplifting' - PATIENCE AGBABI

Author Bio

Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet 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. Film and TV rights for Mrs Death Misses Death have been optioned by Idris Elba's production company Green Door Pictures. Godden has been shortlisted for the 4thWrite short story prize and the Ted Hughes Prize. Her work has been widely anthologised and broadcast on radio, TV and film. Her poem Pessimism is for Lightweights is on permanent display at the People's History Museum, Manchester. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.@salenagodden | salenagodden.co.uk | @salena.godden