These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice

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From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger. Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words. Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection Nikita gives you the words to help heal from your first breakup, to celebrate finding your family, to understand first love, to express your anger and your joy, to fight for what you believe in and to help you break some rules to be your truest self. Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Nikita herself and featuring seasonal astrological poetry, this collection is an achingly beautiful, stunningly warm and fearless expression of truth from one of the most influential and well-known voices in modern poetry. REMINDER FOR HEALING You do not owe anyone your forgiveness. The trees do not apologize to the wind that uproots them. The rocks do not apologize to the erosion by the sea. The stars do not apologize to the universe when they are writhing and dying out. And you are not obligated to forgive anyone but yourself.

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An empowering, heartbreaking and fierce collection that will resonate with many a reader. -- Manjeet Mann, award-winning author of Run, Rebel
perfectly paint(s) a portrait of life * Eastern Eye *
the ointment to soothe the turmoil of change. * The Scotsman *
an empowering collection of feminist poems teens can dip in and out of whenever they want. * The Irish Times *
a great choice for any young person with an interest in poetry or creative writing * The Irish Independent *
(An) empowering collection of feminist poems * The Press *
a book that ignites passion, soothes turmoil and offers a warm voice of wisdom. * The Glasgow Herald *

Author Bio

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published five collections of poetry: Your Soul Is A River (Thought Catalog), Your Heart is the Sea (Thought Catalog), Wild Embers (Trapeze), Fierce Fairytales (Trapeze) and Great Goddesses (Ebury). She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! (Macmillan's Children's Books) and her next book, a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published by Ebury on National Poetry Day 2020.