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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.

Publisher Review

Heartfelt and surreal, uncompromising and tender, Godden holds the poem in the palm of her hand like a hummingbird — JOELLE TAYLOR 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 Like a heart turned inside out . . . joyous and utterly revelatory — EVIE WYLD In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound — HEIDI JAMES-DUNBAR Read these poems then listen to Salena read these poems then go and watch Salena read these poems. She is a master of every incarnation this art form may take and I am constantly in awe of her. This collection brings so much joy and makes me determined to live more, lust more and love more — HOLLIE MCNISH This is a book I will return to over and over and over again, a book everyone should have on their shelf. Salena’s poems are all at once intimate and tender, vast and powerful, compelling, funny, delightful, precise, and always always bursting with life — CECILIA KNAPP 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 A movement and an anthem for our troubled and troubling times * * The Social * *