Salena Godden, a powerhouse of British poetry, launches her stunning new collection, With Love, Grief and Fury, in an evening of readings and conversation at Foyles hosted by Nikita Gill.
Over thirty years after her first ground-breaking collection, these new compassionate, hopeful and audacious poems confirm Godden as a one-of-a-kind, trailblazing voice on the UK poetry scene.
Salena Godden 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. 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.
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, Your Heart is the Sea, Wild Embers Fierce Fairytales and Great Goddesses. She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! and her novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published on National Poetry Day 2020.
The event will be followed by a book signing. Doors will open from 6:45pm.
