Stuff Im (Not) Sorry For: 99 more poems for young people

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The unbearable itch of chicken pox. The annoyance of sharing a Spotify account with your parents. The delight of smearing tomato sauce over everything you eat.

The bright rainbow lights of the roller derby. The glorious sticky sweetness of fairy floss. The rebellion of the fake tattoo you know your nan will hate. The satisfaction of turning your childhood Barbie into a punk-novelist.

The shock of accidentally smashing a neighbours window with a cricket ball. The shame of cheating on a test. The feeling of wearing your afro high and proud. The anxiety of reading text messages before school. The joy in Mums solo standing ovation on concert night. The blowfly in the school toilets that none of the boys can catch

Maxine Beneba Clarke is back with 99 new poems for young people, following on from her multi-award-winning collection,Its the Sound of the Thing. In sonnets, pantoums, narrative verse, free verse, blackout poems, tongue-twisters, limericks, found poems, concrete poems, rhyming couplets, haiku and more,Stuff Im (Not) Sorry Formakes magic from the ordinary.

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Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over fourteen books for adults and children, including the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collectionForeign Soil, the critically acclaimed bestselling memoirThe Hate Race, the self-illustrated picture bookWhen We Say Black Lives Matter, which was longlisted for the UKs Kate Greenaway medal, and the CBCA Honour BookThe Patchwork Bike(illustrated by Van T Rudd), which won the 2019 Boston Globe Horn Prize for Best Picture Book. Her poetry collections includeCarrying the World,which won the 2017 Victorian Premiers Literary Award for Poetry,How Decent Folk Behave,andIts the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people,which won the 2024 ABIA for Book of the Year for Younger Readers. Maxine is the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at the University of Melbourne.