SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This

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It's time to reclaim poetry. Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene. Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known and emerging talent from all walks of life where every style of poetry has a home. With poets such as Raymond Antrobus, Sophia Thakur and Dean Atta guest starring alongside up-and-coming poets, this is the perfect introduction to world of modern poetry. Each poet will introduce their poem, tell you a little bit about themselves and give you a tip for preparing brilliant performance poetry.

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SLAM was one of the best poetry collections Ive read in a long time. With some poems leaving me in tears and others imparting feelings of joy. -- Jaspreet Kaur, award-winning poet and author of Brown Girl Like Me
A life-affirming and transformative collection, curated by a huge talent -- Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars
Buy for your teenager, buy for yourself basically buy a copy for everyone you know and introduce them to the incredible talent of voices that urgently need to be heard. -- Sarah Dawson * The Independent *

Author Bio

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian writer and poet living in the south of England. With a huge online following her words have entranced hearts and minds all over the world. She is a passionate advocate for poetry in all forms and her collection of rewritten Fierce Fairytales along with her latest book of poetry Wild Embers have taken the world by storm.