tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862023700980100422024-03-15T07:14:56.433-07:00Waiting for GoddenSalena Godden's poetry, short stories, events and book news Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.comBlogger294125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-13620735439600967822024-03-08T08:03:00.000-08:002024-03-12T23:55:39.503-07:00Preorder 'With Love, Grief and Fury' audiobook on Audible <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisl35XjuPkn_pXiKLlGT_zDfb2cEalpVE-9evAeryazO0aRIB09LP8CIDJSfDtcHZjXwzAPumNPy9zwxBNyf9Q1UghpfP1_YY4-QmDS6KsA32l5x1pG6RRFaobh-wAq8-e97adtt3IQuAvD4z32089Z6BKsJcsdaOO_laQztKAqgs1Q7XvgrmMBIjLuBJF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisl35XjuPkn_pXiKLlGT_zDfb2cEalpVE-9evAeryazO0aRIB09LP8CIDJSfDtcHZjXwzAPumNPy9zwxBNyf9Q1UghpfP1_YY4-QmDS6KsA32l5x1pG6RRFaobh-wAq8-e97adtt3IQuAvD4z32089Z6BKsJcsdaOO_laQztKAqgs1Q7XvgrmMBIjLuBJF=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hello my dears, just popping on here to make a quick post to share this - the preorder for my NEW audiobook 'With Love, Grief and Fury'</span> <span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-line;">went live online today. This audio version will be launched alongside the beautiful hardback edition on May 2nd 2024 with Canongate. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>CLICK HERE</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CXJJF1FG?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp" target="_blank">WITH LOVE, GRIEF AND FURY </a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CXJJF1FG?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp" target="_blank">ON AUDIBLE </a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL8ZzpTDcn6DtgdNUrJLbqKudba5pfDY7V_Y7pa-Ia02HaXN82XDmox52vfTouX5bSoePMrqXXI1GVzeGl9Gfb3hye7XBlrVcNeU92RyaUaRRmCmGwKsSAUgZ27b2pygQ4JRQ1mjSYhxz3iM9jEhmi4eOj1MoqikbxmPGp5zWDHDRsnj1EpYkBiR97eE2Z" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1170" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL8ZzpTDcn6DtgdNUrJLbqKudba5pfDY7V_Y7pa-Ia02HaXN82XDmox52vfTouX5bSoePMrqXXI1GVzeGl9Gfb3hye7XBlrVcNeU92RyaUaRRmCmGwKsSAUgZ27b2pygQ4JRQ1mjSYhxz3iM9jEhmi4eOj1MoqikbxmPGp5zWDHDRsnj1EpYkBiR97eE2Z=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space: pre-line;">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. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For those of you that enjoyed listening to my 'Mrs Death Misses Death' audiobook or that like to listen to poetry read aloud,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;"> this is the one for you. I hope you like it and I thank you in advance for all preorders as they really help any new title on its journey. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6tIM9L3opJ93eJNZ_HbxCS3gPZyxVwouQ7T9oCRvSz2w08uIwF3a6WH1PIzatEtOIjCvdl7e6aHhF8atOW8d7FTe4gmivrIcszQrwNX4EkuC7mE0VHk2DZJ8uwlfNInYPgJQ-QPENOMVzJj3QtHhY18vdSl47fctz3o9msonjCeDZ8uZE8Al0rAlChPxX" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6tIM9L3opJ93eJNZ_HbxCS3gPZyxVwouQ7T9oCRvSz2w08uIwF3a6WH1PIzatEtOIjCvdl7e6aHhF8atOW8d7FTe4gmivrIcszQrwNX4EkuC7mE0VHk2DZJ8uwlfNInYPgJQ-QPENOMVzJj3QtHhY18vdSl47fctz3o9msonjCeDZ8uZE8Al0rAlChPxX=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-overflow: unset; white-space: pre-wrap;">March 23 - </span></span></span><a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/NPGLondon" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; 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font-size: large;">@LyraFest</span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; white-space: pre-line;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-overflow: unset; white-space: pre-wrap;">April 27 - </span></span></span><span style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: georgia; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: large; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><a class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/southbankcentre" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; 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font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;">Talking of NEW audiobooks: Lovely to s</span></span></span><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;">ee so many of you in Shoreditch </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">for the WOW Global event</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;"> and the star-studded launch of Annabelle Hirsch</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;"> incredible audiobook, ‘A History Of Women in 101 Objects’ - </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-line;">I'm honoured to be joining so many amazing voices and taking part in this audiobook of 101 stories of empowerment and resistance and helping to raise funds for </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">REFUGE and WOW charities. Here's some pics of the event by </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">📸 </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/elliekurttzphoto/" role="link" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">@elliekurttzphoto</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinXQ98qUsNCOWTnUCXvdk5Ej5JwnNLaJIfg0KviekSXhmaXVhDQAmbJKsZWijuqKtPs5bhQ03Wq6iGO5rDz7VQPddu2i4bBVkyhxZr7G-uaEI2rZCMiRvae9A7CdldTlESP0MaScOBF6mrJggYfawCN4ZMW6S3fX_AFAGsp5FXrLjVx2COahMDXfmjNJTW" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="1103" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinXQ98qUsNCOWTnUCXvdk5Ej5JwnNLaJIfg0KviekSXhmaXVhDQAmbJKsZWijuqKtPs5bhQ03Wq6iGO5rDz7VQPddu2i4bBVkyhxZr7G-uaEI2rZCMiRvae9A7CdldTlESP0MaScOBF6mrJggYfawCN4ZMW6S3fX_AFAGsp5FXrLjVx2COahMDXfmjNJTW=w400-h354" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Backstage: Liv Little, Anita Rani, Annabelle Hirsch, Salena Godden, <br />Elif Shafak, Martha Wainwright & Jordan Stephens</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzpFbePOHeD5iJTII6w02BYCppviRTd1jW6K3eVr1W4iq9gMWUKJ7uXNyzqTVs3bKuW-g44u61_v92ITBOcnZYb0FrJmj59IASZYtQl5c9SC9ObNa_4go62mEHcQ9kIP8pUHX8JTpIedC34bQOMGhrGO12dJJYkHNbBkY_5jeBHpvbeJvc3yiIaCrV3KZk" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzpFbePOHeD5iJTII6w02BYCppviRTd1jW6K3eVr1W4iq9gMWUKJ7uXNyzqTVs3bKuW-g44u61_v92ITBOcnZYb0FrJmj59IASZYtQl5c9SC9ObNa_4go62mEHcQ9kIP8pUHX8JTpIedC34bQOMGhrGO12dJJYkHNbBkY_5jeBHpvbeJvc3yiIaCrV3KZk=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Jordan Stephens</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTOllALHPpWJK44fNUukhGcjrx0UyDjwX2pSRYf_uo0dZ4UtCeTC9uJthq5mU0vPawID5hqDE1G89PrvZj-OwW97vrcYiXko8aJu4kgzrRFawWlzFTgcd7PxR_k-_nFPh6uxqfFj9MmeKI0MdLa4qTOTYZ5e4pPX3CeADaXvPlNAdoMzFBLyu0Bcl22Z8K" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTOllALHPpWJK44fNUukhGcjrx0UyDjwX2pSRYf_uo0dZ4UtCeTC9uJthq5mU0vPawID5hqDE1G89PrvZj-OwW97vrcYiXko8aJu4kgzrRFawWlzFTgcd7PxR_k-_nFPh6uxqfFj9MmeKI0MdLa4qTOTYZ5e4pPX3CeADaXvPlNAdoMzFBLyu0Bcl22Z8K=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Elif Shafak</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTOllALHPpWJK44fNUukhGcjrx0UyDjwX2pSRYf_uo0dZ4UtCeTC9uJthq5mU0vPawID5hqDE1G89PrvZj-OwW97vrcYiXko8aJu4kgzrRFawWlzFTgcd7PxR_k-_nFPh6uxqfFj9MmeKI0MdLa4qTOTYZ5e4pPX3CeADaXvPlNAdoMzFBLyu0Bcl22Z8K" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTOllALHPpWJK44fNUukhGcjrx0UyDjwX2pSRYf_uo0dZ4UtCeTC9uJthq5mU0vPawID5hqDE1G89PrvZj-OwW97vrcYiXko8aJu4kgzrRFawWlzFTgcd7PxR_k-_nFPh6uxqfFj9MmeKI0MdLa4qTOTYZ5e4pPX3CeADaXvPlNAdoMzFBLyu0Bcl22Z8K" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">Annabelle Hirsch</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTOllALHPpWJK44fNUukhGcjrx0UyDjwX2pSRYf_uo0dZ4UtCeTC9uJthq5mU0vPawID5hqDE1G89PrvZj-OwW97vrcYiXko8aJu4kgzrRFawWlzFTgcd7PxR_k-_nFPh6uxqfFj9MmeKI0MdLa4qTOTYZ5e4pPX3CeADaXvPlNAdoMzFBLyu0Bcl22Z8K" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTOllALHPpWJK44fNUukhGcjrx0UyDjwX2pSRYf_uo0dZ4UtCeTC9uJthq5mU0vPawID5hqDE1G89PrvZj-OwW97vrcYiXko8aJu4kgzrRFawWlzFTgcd7PxR_k-_nFPh6uxqfFj9MmeKI0MdLa4qTOTYZ5e4pPX3CeADaXvPlNAdoMzFBLyu0Bcl22Z8K" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>CLICK HERE: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-History-of-Women-in-101-Objects-Audiobook/B0CKXZYX18?qid=1709912763&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=8TB072FF86618FZZ4DCJ&pageLoadId=1wDsCm2163Y4eA1f&creativeId=41e85e98-10b8-40e2-907d-6b663f04a42d" target="_blank">HISTORY OF WOMEN </a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-History-of-Women-in-101-Objects-Audiobook/B0CKXZYX18?qid=1709912763&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=8TB072FF86618FZZ4DCJ&pageLoadId=1wDsCm2163Y4eA1f&creativeId=41e85e98-10b8-40e2-907d-6b663f04a42d" target="_blank"><b>IN 101 OBJECTS </b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-History-of-Women-in-101-Objects-Audiobook/B0CKXZYX18?qid=1709912763&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=8TB072FF86618FZZ4DCJ&pageLoadId=1wDsCm2163Y4eA1f&creativeId=41e85e98-10b8-40e2-907d-6b663f04a42d" target="_blank"><b>ON AUDIBLE </b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left; white-space: normal;">"We are proud to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024 with the launch of the audiobook of A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch</span><span style="text-align: left; white-space: normal;"> read by a chorus of 101 remarkable women. </span>This ambitious audio project was recorded across 18 studios in 12 countries, and we’re so grateful to our amazing readers: <i style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(6, 22, 36); text-align: start;">Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, Jackie Kay, Len Pennie, Annabelle Hirsch, Shirley Manson, Rebecca Solnit, Sandi Toksvig, Marina Hyde, Naomi Shimada, Harriet Walter, Celia Imrie, Kate Manne, Margaret Atwood, Janina Ramirez, Doon Mackichan, Helen Mirren, Elif Shafak, Kathryn Hunter, Kate Mosse, Miriam Margolyes, Val McDermid, Caitlin Moran, Dolly Alderton, Georgia Byng, Olivia Colman, Sasha Lane, Adjoa Andoh, Elizabeth Acevedo, Sue Perkins, Ece Temelkuran, Mary Ann Sieghart, Alison Steadman, Daisy Ridley, Rebecca Hall, Krista Tippett, Patience Agbabi, Michelle Newell, Jeanette Winterson, Geraldine James, Sinead Cusack, Tiya Miles, Crystal Clarke, Louise Brealey, Leïla Slimani, Helena Kennedy, Samin Nosrat, Anna Holmes, Michelle Gomez, India Knight, Natascha McElhone, Lauren Elkin, Kate Winslet, Helena Bonham Carter, Sylvia Whitman, Noma Dumezweni, Meera Syal, Niamh McGrady, Denise Gough, Jacqueline Wilson, Siri Hustvedt, Gaby Wood, Sophie Hunter, Lisa-Kaindé Diaz, Annabel Mullion, Sharleen Spiteri, Jennifer Clement, Julia Gillard, Christiane Amanpour, Jude Kelly, Kerry Fox, Ruth Rogers, Maggie Smith, Hanna Schygulla, Kübra Gümüşay, Erica Wagner, Sandra Hüller, Jodie Whittaker, Virginie Efira, Nicola Sturgeon, Juno Dawson, Juliet Stevenson, Sally Phillips, Anjelica Huston, Lisa Dwan, Ruth Ozeki, Joanna Lumley, Cynthia Erivo, Martha Wainwright, Eleanor Updegraff, Sinéad Gleeson, Salena Godden, Lili Taylor, Mariella Frostrup, Rakie Ayola, Katie Kitamura, Saffron Hocking, Tahmima Anam, Vivian Oparah, Shirin Neshat.</i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;"><span><b>A History of Women in 101 Objects</b> audiobook was created to show how the past has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it and <span style="text-align: left;">‘to add texture and intimacy to the slowly re-emerging stories of women from the past’ Guardian - </span><span style="text-align: justify;">25% of the proceeds go to Refuge </span><span style="text-align: justify;">for their work empowering women and children experiencing domestic violence. - </span></span><span>Join us tonight, Friday March 8th, with WOW, for an evening filled with optimism, determination and laughter, featuring discussion and readings from some of our cast and authors!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll leave you with these stunning images: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's some powerful artwork I have been loving on instagram by @DEVTHEPINEAPPLE - sharing this stunning work with solidarity and hope for the courage we need globally, not just for International Women's Day, not just for Mothers Day, but every day. I share these and once again call for a permanent ceasefire, freedom and libration, none of we are free, until we are all free.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKVOeUb9RhLpCyJ9QY5NMo34oH0XrXcs4S6Bz6SXdIl9yQLLlZpJhlwX60SxInrpIhCKDIgW5AHwcJduFULJY-DaQA9dYkxza_P7nzPVDHDyjO1rYgyJBniY8QdZjG-RQRseykMnjlHSfMoakijbLvmnZsIACdtsT63i1JoICg2wOhtNXaBbXwB6eU7r94" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKVOeUb9RhLpCyJ9QY5NMo34oH0XrXcs4S6Bz6SXdIl9yQLLlZpJhlwX60SxInrpIhCKDIgW5AHwcJduFULJY-DaQA9dYkxza_P7nzPVDHDyjO1rYgyJBniY8QdZjG-RQRseykMnjlHSfMoakijbLvmnZsIACdtsT63i1JoICg2wOhtNXaBbXwB6eU7r94=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-line;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSH3HLLDpKE5Hlw3W-KlPG6rRYPRTOKeo7lRdg5D2TzO1nWTLtpmnkT4YAwOFPrsMK-uwa2la2atyeYk_K2v2qqe9gwNhUAe0kSm9CKJl3zzgtrhVDlwlB_8am8pr1b02odK0RZBj4a84J7o0IGd_fjDAtaP1YtGouWtDFAB3sb8wV0nRE4lKUxLzn0ce0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSH3HLLDpKE5Hlw3W-KlPG6rRYPRTOKeo7lRdg5D2TzO1nWTLtpmnkT4YAwOFPrsMK-uwa2la2atyeYk_K2v2qqe9gwNhUAe0kSm9CKJl3zzgtrhVDlwlB_8am8pr1b02odK0RZBj4a84J7o0IGd_fjDAtaP1YtGouWtDFAB3sb8wV0nRE4lKUxLzn0ce0=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuF4QQQ-l3gn34CMIOeuDa1029-wPtrBXAQ_RX9UHt0NGTTEkeXOVLlHXJfE_TbkpUKguqM_iQSBOK2Y5ZsjYXKHEJ8PpeK4OJXhiq4RAJoqtJAPQVg5gw0NF8q_Op5qBbnFMpva7iAQYYigVXMptUfw8bHSIbVcmHJo_RseNcUi8kWFmxcqF-B42CVbIQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1461" data-original-width="1170" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuF4QQQ-l3gn34CMIOeuDa1029-wPtrBXAQ_RX9UHt0NGTTEkeXOVLlHXJfE_TbkpUKguqM_iQSBOK2Y5ZsjYXKHEJ8PpeK4OJXhiq4RAJoqtJAPQVg5gw0NF8q_Op5qBbnFMpva7iAQYYigVXMptUfw8bHSIbVcmHJo_RseNcUi8kWFmxcqF-B42CVbIQ=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-20032383394252858022024-02-16T04:51:00.000-08:002024-03-12T23:59:41.037-07:00Springtime gigs and events....<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7sVayUv7-l-t3MS9xgNECQIkBcRdk0Q0lYFeKoy6GdrM_jY4-6RKq2fWshl4fi_pmxM3m2CotVa8MnSRTUcwxatdl9CpCj85Ugh5aG4edne0Ua71fHB0AH3UtEKrH6k0uSKYkexnRIt8tkfGp8R98fGEcu-HCU11dDlRBWrSmdQALXWM2nBo-sVyKZMNv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7sVayUv7-l-t3MS9xgNECQIkBcRdk0Q0lYFeKoy6GdrM_jY4-6RKq2fWshl4fi_pmxM3m2CotVa8MnSRTUcwxatdl9CpCj85Ugh5aG4edne0Ua71fHB0AH3UtEKrH6k0uSKYkexnRIt8tkfGp8R98fGEcu-HCU11dDlRBWrSmdQALXWM2nBo-sVyKZMNv=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hello loves, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How are you? I hope you are doing ok. Here is a blog post of things to look forward to and to share some of my first live shows of 2024 and dates for March. I will add more shows as they come in, so keep an eye on this page. I haven't performed since November, it feels strange, it has been a long and dark winter hibernation. I am looking forward to seeing your faces again and sharing my two new books and hearing your new poetry and work too. This spring I am honoured to be asked to be a judge for the Nibbies - British Book Awards 2024 - and so I will have lots of reading of new books to do over the next few weeks. As usual I'll keep adding gigs to this page as new dates are confirmed. I kick off this year with an incredibly powerful WOW event for International Women's Day on March 8th, this will be my first gig of the year, supporting and launching the audiobook of <b>'A History of Women in 101 Objects'</b> and raising money for Refuge and WOW charities, please scroll down for all tickets and info and links... I am slowly getting ready to leave my cave and come find you all. See you back out there, see you in the festivals and fields, see you in the bookshops and libraries, see you here and there, keep dreaming the big dream, keep fighting the good fight, forever love, peace and justice, forever onwards...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">sgxx </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://shoreditchtownhall.com/whats-on/wow-one-night-live-in-london" target="_blank"><b>March 8th - WOW | IWD - One Night Live In London </b></a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">International Women's Day, WOW, Shoreditch Town Hall, London. <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left; white-space: pre-line;">I am honoured to support the very brilliant Annabelle Hirsch</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left; white-space: pre-line;"> and her glorious book ‘The History of Women in 101 Objects’ Come join us on </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/iwd2024/" role="link" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; white-space: pre-line;" tabindex="0">#IWD2024</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left; white-space: pre-line;"> to launch this exciting audio book. I am just one of many friends and supporters coming together for this beautiful audio book and the Refuge UK and WOW charities.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin4uvHT1HqDAIReGjeimx_HBiD_S-1dwJ6e-O-M3kgk2v3doCPYO3-sdCdx2f5Cjn3k_o2_G1ygpuc22RIufBOg0OxTztfd9DZ20eQselfO6MdmkaE3weXOm0yJ7SAqnnvs2GthntzgUKXqpy0tbRsyKmixpEJUiNLJS-vy68hPCZkyuc_ozpix_9Oka1L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="1170" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin4uvHT1HqDAIReGjeimx_HBiD_S-1dwJ6e-O-M3kgk2v3doCPYO3-sdCdx2f5Cjn3k_o2_G1ygpuc22RIufBOg0OxTztfd9DZ20eQselfO6MdmkaE3weXOm0yJ7SAqnnvs2GthntzgUKXqpy0tbRsyKmixpEJUiNLJS-vy68hPCZkyuc_ozpix_9Oka1L" width="246" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6JOwka7zBvRCYP3AFwL9YWqrGWkNgrNmxd8vRqeKDwJGWDECumW_m-nb4NI5cHzzxFwjCgkE6tuxd5rYC9CUQSaot-k8ppJfSYTbyYSJyRbPFNg0wsSxUI6gD22pnPqr3aPF8qxLfuWUf5XdVVogQlbxX2oym_kLP0NKzmiOMrj--DLz3Y6iEbrgWpxua" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="1170" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6JOwka7zBvRCYP3AFwL9YWqrGWkNgrNmxd8vRqeKDwJGWDECumW_m-nb4NI5cHzzxFwjCgkE6tuxd5rYC9CUQSaot-k8ppJfSYTbyYSJyRbPFNg0wsSxUI6gD22pnPqr3aPF8qxLfuWUf5XdVVogQlbxX2oym_kLP0NKzmiOMrj--DLz3Y6iEbrgWpxua" width="249" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.hackneyempire.co.uk/book/instance/132201" target="_blank">March 15th | Hollie McNish 'Lobster' | Hackney Empire </a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Congratulations to Hollie on her new poetry book 'Lobster' - I believe tickets for her London launch at the Hackney Empire are very nearly sold out. I'm excited to support Hollie alongside the wonderful Michael Pedersen for this brilliant event. This will be a real treat. Catch us if you can!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHhEc7jEUXWt-PmdZFlu5sMmxfGf9ItWeTdcYiksWFNmoMeKTG2q8XpQc_4APKks6BMWFcs5N1E3esNAEA9aCVLLs3AOaGGDzWIPtDTSBg38bo8tCrkb0Y8jSwuv-tymkM8Lkuo0YaQtAzAJTRkJ4bszDmL5LxghQwswhJ_6bY4p-E_neEOOXFrOK5arBo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1170" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHhEc7jEUXWt-PmdZFlu5sMmxfGf9ItWeTdcYiksWFNmoMeKTG2q8XpQc_4APKks6BMWFcs5N1E3esNAEA9aCVLLs3AOaGGDzWIPtDTSBg38bo8tCrkb0Y8jSwuv-tymkM8Lkuo0YaQtAzAJTRkJ4bszDmL5LxghQwswhJ_6bY4p-E_neEOOXFrOK5arBo=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://thesocial.seetickets.com/event/white-rabbit-strange-things-are-happening/the-social/2938314" target="_blank">March 18th | 'Strange Things.. at The Social'</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); white-space-collapse: preserve;">Delighted to join White Rabbit to </span></span><span style="text-align: start;">celebrate the launch of this brilliant Richard Norris memoir. Richard Norris in conversation with Salena Godden</span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25);"> plus guests Harry Sword, The Soft Bouncers, The Hardway Bros and more... </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix2moIdZNFCbSI7bzX7-MR6fki_188uJ_qjoCRNFYFNHNDL10ello3HsmCnF_YfnlybfL_Wi5F967ZUz8JQxBqmMpGMFZ2l1IdJ5A6OvQ1fLhFD5LtLTkTulqYmk9xzMrbWDvID4iM-JOloNAgEmMexDdQMzQWmZrjFm6e74a0prDiOZryg3yBZmTHN61N" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix2moIdZNFCbSI7bzX7-MR6fki_188uJ_qjoCRNFYFNHNDL10ello3HsmCnF_YfnlybfL_Wi5F967ZUz8JQxBqmMpGMFZ2l1IdJ5A6OvQ1fLhFD5LtLTkTulqYmk9xzMrbWDvID4iM-JOloNAgEmMexDdQMzQWmZrjFm6e74a0prDiOZryg3yBZmTHN61N=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/event-root/march/poetry-performance" target="_blank">March 23rd | National Portrait Gallery | Poetry</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f6; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-align: start;"><i>"Photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron are two of the most influential women in the history of photography. They lived a century apart – Cameron working in the UK and Sri Lanka from the 1860s, and Woodman in America and Italy from the 1970s. Both women explored portraiture beyond its ability to record appearance – using their own creativity and imagination to suggest notions of beauty, symbolism, transformation and storytelling. " </i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">Join award-winning author, poet and broadcaster, Salena Godden for a poetry performance in the Galleries. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: georgia;">Drawing on magical realism and the notion of a dream space - themes explored within the upcoming exhibition</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: georgia;">, Salena will be reading a selection of her works exploring similar themes. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZVguKfa4Hd73WGGhkSiT2oh1PYxQ1Wg1l0Q8k5rh7MVEi9r4f6ob-o-MBFp3U6XlpHNytODcJFCJWS9wzd-Fae-gZ9HLd1UtjaHsBZFNAdf6OEoobZlt6TYJzrA5sfeprTtN8yuTZWzXOHOzHd43EWWUf_uqj6cJ6RpGG4vprMhVm2QNDFxH2qBFG8Jjw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1440" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZVguKfa4Hd73WGGhkSiT2oh1PYxQ1Wg1l0Q8k5rh7MVEi9r4f6ob-o-MBFp3U6XlpHNytODcJFCJWS9wzd-Fae-gZ9HLd1UtjaHsBZFNAdf6OEoobZlt6TYJzrA5sfeprTtN8yuTZWzXOHOzHd43EWWUf_uqj6cJ6RpGG4vprMhVm2QNDFxH2qBFG8Jjw=w640-h340" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://bristolbeacon.org/whats-on/raise-the-bar-salena-godden-friends/" target="_blank">April 13th | Raise The Bar | Lyra Festival, Bristol</a></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">Excited to be back at RTB in Bristol in April. T<span style="background-color: white;">he incredible line-up includes UK poetry stars and heroes of mine, Nikita Gill and Cecilia Knapp. This is</span><span style="background-color: white;"> part of Lyra Festival</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"> 2024, it will be a wonderful evening, tickets on sale now...</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihB9CF3mSc_IzOs6t1PM27E-LaQXLNog952YjdyKhxY_o2-yl6ULiX00qcqVPhokSke1qS8u3FkEXq3t8lp0TWuRXBkxye-3EYmzR2MhInM7lGoKWQODRXzjLOMTkuhjQ0QKexH2Yz5q1agkSrc2EHLUtZDLqnbD-WqU82RC8eW2w5zNqRmMjMPqaxHIUL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihB9CF3mSc_IzOs6t1PM27E-LaQXLNog952YjdyKhxY_o2-yl6ULiX00qcqVPhokSke1qS8u3FkEXq3t8lp0TWuRXBkxye-3EYmzR2MhInM7lGoKWQODRXzjLOMTkuhjQ0QKexH2Yz5q1agkSrc2EHLUtZDLqnbD-WqU82RC8eW2w5zNqRmMjMPqaxHIUL=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-family: Beacon, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Raise the Bar returns to Bristol Beacon for a Lyra Festival special, featuring legendary UK poet Salena Godden alongside a lineup of dynamic performers.</strong></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-46163803498718227582024-01-19T06:31:00.000-08:002024-02-06T04:28:52.227-08:00January and poetry...<p><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkjkwl78ceHZV_PDHGv70e6ScR4jHkFuzDwh0bGpKeAMAXCYbApOcxWXlODo73LY_0KYagtio38sIXpER-IS4VYk76GZ4fiFvUYXeTjtIw7cI1BkCG3bsTt0cqX2M04o1lAVM1TPRHmee_hZdgLwAZE9riUg6IgkdMbb4Ivkvl2zX4kTtFlouJSyh_cazB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1139" data-original-width="1170" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkjkwl78ceHZV_PDHGv70e6ScR4jHkFuzDwh0bGpKeAMAXCYbApOcxWXlODo73LY_0KYagtio38sIXpER-IS4VYk76GZ4fiFvUYXeTjtIw7cI1BkCG3bsTt0cqX2M04o1lAVM1TPRHmee_hZdgLwAZE9riUg6IgkdMbb4Ivkvl2zX4kTtFlouJSyh_cazB=w400-h389" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hello my January friends,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How are you? Here's my face. <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Long darkness, wintry silence, cold night skies. I’m clocking into the 4am Writing Club.</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> I’ve been in here every morning for quite a few weeks now. Winter. Writing. Watching for first light. I’m like a surfer waiting to catch a wave on night oceans. I don’t know why I take these lonely pictures, maybe to document the isolation. The feeling of now. Maybe so when it is another era and another time and things are different and changed, I’ll see it and know how this time is gone. How nothing changes. How everything changes. One day these pictures will be in the past and long ago, and we will be in other worlds, I don’t know what that will look like yet, but I have faith in it, and I hold onto it, and want to meet you there.</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d;">I am just popping onto my blog to say hello and share some poetry and quotes and to belatedly wish you and all a peaceful and healthy and happy 2024. For those of you that subscribe to this page you'll know I always write a personal blog post like this in January, often with a piss take of my new year resolutions and a run down of everything that happened over the last 12 months, but I'm just not feeling like it this year. I feel quite quiet and introverted, and although lots of significant things happened, I feel like I just am already looking to the future and trying to visualise and picture it and even that in itself is hard right now. This winter I'm mostly hibernating and hiding in books. I am deep in creation, swallowed up in the real work and proper madness of book making. Talking to fires and moons, trying to make sense of this unreal real world and seeking the light. I have been doing lots of work to prepare to launch two beautiful new books this May 2024, and I'm also completing a new novel due for publication in 2025. More about the novel later...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC-__iGWwv3mpFZQpIZuuEmi3wZuHBJ-P5Ii0IsZgHU_9IyKR1caA4tmU_Nzy9iFi3M0Rhb04mch9d75uUYZhyqzx1qnK8Y5L5kwIViXkPyCkmHVQAOm5NoRuK2oPPduLu9YAyyZ4XdHyoWFz_6IdnVGh8d5D-sC2s5-SSoBkPNZk5u52t5X7qi3mfiOhI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC-__iGWwv3mpFZQpIZuuEmi3wZuHBJ-P5Ii0IsZgHU_9IyKR1caA4tmU_Nzy9iFi3M0Rhb04mch9d75uUYZhyqzx1qnK8Y5L5kwIViXkPyCkmHVQAOm5NoRuK2oPPduLu9YAyyZ4XdHyoWFz_6IdnVGh8d5D-sC2s5-SSoBkPNZk5u52t5X7qi3mfiOhI=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d;">On May 2nd 2024 Canongate will double launch these two books together: the</span><span style="color: #20124d;"> revised edition of my literary childhood memoir <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/springfield-road-a-poet-s-childhood-revisited-salena-godden/7626195?aid=5211&ean=9781805300243&" target="_blank"> 'Springfield Road - A Poets Childhood Revisited'</a> almost twenty years since it was first drafted - I was in my 30s when I wrote this memoir and I could never write this now or remember being a child so clearly and vividly as I have here. Plus we will also be publishing the new poetry book <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/with-love-grief-and-fury-salena-godden/7626205?aid=5211&ean=9781805303510&" target="_blank"> 'With Love, Grief and Fury'</a> which is a full 2020s collection, containing 80 new works on themes of love and peace and joy and gratitude and compassion and empathy and identity and age and womanhood and wisdom and hope and healing and survival and rage. I am nervous that both books are so deeply personal and confessional of then and of now. Also both books launch on the same day and so it will seem fitting that we'll have to have a lovely big party gathering booze up boogie for that, watch this space. I will be back on the road and touring these books throughout spring and summer, and I hope to see you at lots of gigs and festivals and bookshops. I cannot wait to share this work and go on adventures and reconnect with old mates and to see all of your faces again, we have so much catching up to do. Preorders are available now, they really help a new book on its voyage, so I thank you all so much for all preorders so far. Remember: c</span><span style="color: #20124d;">hoose bookshops and support independents, preorder links below.</span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I started the year sharing a performance film of a poetry show I did back in October for Apples and Snakes at the QEH, Southbank. There are four poems captured here: three pieces are from my 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' collection and one exclusive from the forthcoming 'With Love, Grief and Fury' check it all out below. I have lots of films in my archives to share, I am so behind with things, but I want to remember to try to remember to film more of my new poems and performances this year, I have even started trying to share things on tik-tok, but I am not very confident on there yet, but if you can find me there, come say hello. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I will post my 2024 tour dates and more book news soon. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">For now I just wanted to say hey and share some poetry and some hope and some love and urge you to remain whole and hopeful and soft hearted. There is so much pain and sorrow and grief and anger and war and bombs and death and hunger in the big bad world right now. We must all fight to stay soft and strong and resilient all at the same time, to not get despondent, to not get bitter, to keep fighting the good fight. To hold the line. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">More than ever, I love the poets, I just want to say thank you to the poets. Thank you for your powerful words and messages online and offline, for sharing petitions and letters and posts for ceasefire, for your sense of community, for your moving poetry and books, for sharing your truth, for sharing your light, for showing us what you see and feel and know, for narrating the times, thank you for your humanity. Follow all the poets, follow the poets I follow, follow more poets, follow all the poets, have a look at some book recommendations <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/salenagodden" target="_blank">here: </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/salenagodden" style="text-align: left;">https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/salenagodden</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Poetry is medicine. Poetry is food. Poetry is protest. I'll leave you with some images and poems by incredible poets, shared in solidarity with all freedom fighters and peace seekers and hope punks. </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please keep the faith, share when you can, donate where and when you can, I'll add some links below...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Keep writing and keep reading and keep loving,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">More soon comrades, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">lovelove, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sgxx</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjl1Ctn7csE" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: medium;">Photo taken backstage at Edinburgh International Book Festival</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Eulogy: Benjamin Zephaniah</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>As read for The Black Writers Guild, Brixton, December 2023</i></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I come with a few notes to say. A feeling to share. I come to show you some broken pieces. In fact I feel like a child showing you a broken thing. Yes. That is what this feels like. If you ask me to speak on the passing of Professor Benjamin Zephaniah I hurtle back in time and am reminded how it felt to be a child, like I am pointing to a hurt and broken world, and hoping an adult and grown up or someone in charge will come and kiss it better, glue it back together, make it whole again. The world is so scary right now. My heart is properly broken. Please excuse my clumsiness. I am not very good at this December. I lost sight of the lighthouse and I am rowing my boat in dark water right now. We lost Shane Macgowan. We lost Benjamin Zephaniah. Punk. Rasta. Ireland. Jamaica. Rebel. Anarchist. Activist. Big heart. Spirited soul. Trailblazer. Pioneer. This week is also the anniversaries of the suicide of my Irish father and the deaths of both of my grandmothers. May they all rest in peace, in power, in paradise. I need lots of Guinness and rum if you're asking. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I have learned that when people go, your mind takes you back to the beginning of the story. You go back to when you first met them. So standing here to speak is not me, I am not here, it is not the 50 year old Salena, but standing before you is the 20 year old me. Fresh from Hastings. Leaping around early 1990's London like Tigger in Winnie the Pooh. The time before iphones and the internet. A city vibrating with grunge and punk and house and rave and drum n' bass and hip hop and jungle and reggae music. I was a kid that came to London as a seeker, wanting to know what this writing poetry stuff was all about and finding so much inspiration and fire and life in the poetry community, in the smoky back rooms of pubs, with velvet flocked wallpaper and thick sticky carpets, when we chain smoked fags indoors and nothing was really filmed or photographed. You had to be there. It was fantastic. We all belonged nowhere, but found home and family in poetry. I remember roaming London just looking for mischief and rebellion and books and parties and fun and hope and truth. Benjamin symbolised of all of this, this meaningful words place, this shape of things to come, this wave of courage and resilience, this bold and changing tide. So many of us have followed the path that Benjamin cut through, the path made by going first, by being the first, the path that is so well trodden now. Poetry back then was not what it is now. It wasn't really funded. (haha) It wasn't seen in the same way. Back then it seemed more DIY and home made, poetry was printed in photocopied zines and recorded on cassette tapes. I have boxes of these archives, scrap books of gig fliers and posters, poetry art and recordings. These spaces and stages and platforms were made for the love of it, for the passion of it. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">Everything we take for granted now was fought for. </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">We can never forget that.</span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">Benjamin Zephaniah meant the world to me. And I know he meant the world to you too. He was like everyone’s big brother, a guide, a someone to look up to. I admire and love Lemn Sissay in the same way. I am honoured and humbled and feel very lucky to know so many great poets as mates for the thirty years I have been here in London doing this thing. Whatever this thing is. The bottom line is Benjamin was always gentle and kind to me. As Maya Angelou once said “We may not remember what people say or do but we remember how they made us feel” we never forget kindness. I never forget kindness. Benjamin welcomed me, he held the door open to me, this scrappy wide-eyed idealistic ska-punk potty-mouthed poet. </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left;">Looking back now </span></span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">I learnt so much from Benjamin, I learnt how it feels to be regarded, to be seen, to be heard, how to dream bigger. </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">We must copy this example, make space, fight for platforms, hold the door open. </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">Hold the line.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">Professor Benjamin Zephaniah was so many things to so many people, mentor, educator, hero, teacher and leader with integrity and spirit, he is soulful, warm and encouraging and generous in every memory I have stored. But above all that it is the laughter I keep returning to and his laughter that I want to bring your attention to.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In one photograph I have shared online: we are recording an episode of BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends. It was Benjamin that started it and he isn't here to defend himself so I will blame it on him. We started mucking about and put our names on yellow post it notes on our chests, so they would remember our names. Then we swapped our name tags, Benjamin laughed, let's swap them, see if they mix the brown people up. We made the programme like this. Laughing. Benjamin with Godden on his chest. Me with Zephaniah on my heart. I don't think I ever took it off.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">In every memory I have stored of Benjamin Zephaniah, he is cracking up laughing. He used to say my name, like this, he'd tilt his head, grin and crack up laughing, which would make me grin, and crack up laughing. This is my medicine right now, this is the medicine I want us to share, remembering his laugh, I share the memory of it and hold it. I replay it, his smile, his laugh, like the way you might play a piece of well-worn vinyl. I know every single one of you can remember it now, his laugh, his smile. I think that is what he would want us to to all do right now, and today, for us all to smile, hold space for his smile, the sound of his laughter, hold that, share that, in our minds and hearts. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I was gonna write that I cannot believe I wont hear him laugh and say my name like that again. But I can hear it now and he's saying ok ok ok Salena that's enough. Let someone else speak. So I will go now. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Viva Zephaniah! Viva the great poets! Viva the revolution! </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh4UHAV6KS_V4eyhB6FbXvkkxBzHI-2fZ3mxl8AFj6XzOC-ReBNxpm83mMFJBzLDaUz0QGBVwmD2NdSTQlbY0Qdt4M11WXKtntYDZk8hJN97DMAz5_qpkiN3tWkVNrKsZGnFlm2wI55sKLDNO0CKfH7j_0bfIsDkkIWjW7XdZsfaWfwD1ietNYjshxF5F2/s1170/IMG_9563.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1161" data-original-width="1170" height="637" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh4UHAV6KS_V4eyhB6FbXvkkxBzHI-2fZ3mxl8AFj6XzOC-ReBNxpm83mMFJBzLDaUz0QGBVwmD2NdSTQlbY0Qdt4M11WXKtntYDZk8hJN97DMAz5_qpkiN3tWkVNrKsZGnFlm2wI55sKLDNO0CKfH7j_0bfIsDkkIWjW7XdZsfaWfwD1ietNYjshxF5F2/w640-h637/IMG_9563.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Photos taken whilst recording Loose Ends BBC Radio 4</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjevfiCJTyupHMC_5Te3bSzZ6YeeZoXsrzR18yWUvQLZC1LxXxdSb9xpxMghiFPJtAJBTZ0rx-v7iwIQxwIUbeG7Sy7WPL_ye1O5Mmqil1yO7QILiy0_ljDmjjTuc8LqR_jqm2ZhCm8ho-x-SceBQK9BRRbTDB2v7d0TE9LIxSg2QriQShuC1O6onwJr26d/s1170/IMG_9565.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="1170" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjevfiCJTyupHMC_5Te3bSzZ6YeeZoXsrzR18yWUvQLZC1LxXxdSb9xpxMghiFPJtAJBTZ0rx-v7iwIQxwIUbeG7Sy7WPL_ye1O5Mmqil1yO7QILiy0_ljDmjjTuc8LqR_jqm2ZhCm8ho-x-SceBQK9BRRbTDB2v7d0TE9LIxSg2QriQShuC1O6onwJr26d/w640-h600/IMG_9565.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Photo taken on set of the BAFTA award-winning Life & Rhymes <br />with Benjamin Zephaniah and Lemn Sissay</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><span style="color: black;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdIlWGKId6P9jwV8sbrePYtlhKq20TXFy4Ns9eGxt9sU_ZsYpRgwPVMVpfguSm8pvX6e0Yvm_6l1XiUJH_IGr-8BN3iJHeaDntRuML0S7rivWrjUeb0-aBgOCeTwv27AFukzj3sTx8XjX3OKODdlcF7kZT4G5AouJESfv8LoCpPz5r2_2xu6r60nCFcL3/s1581/IMG_9453.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1581" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdIlWGKId6P9jwV8sbrePYtlhKq20TXFy4Ns9eGxt9sU_ZsYpRgwPVMVpfguSm8pvX6e0Yvm_6l1XiUJH_IGr-8BN3iJHeaDntRuML0S7rivWrjUeb0-aBgOCeTwv27AFukzj3sTx8XjX3OKODdlcF7kZT4G5AouJESfv8LoCpPz5r2_2xu6r60nCFcL3/w640-h426/IMG_9453.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">RIP Shane! This</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> looks like it was maybe taken in 1990's Filthy’s, maybe, but that’s how I always remember seeing Shane, drinking at the bar of Filthy McNasty’s with Jock Scot, so here’s raising a glass to that love and laughter, and those raucous and colourful memories.</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">photo: </span></i></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Danny Elwes, Evening Standard, 1994.</i></span><br /><br /><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1DFVO-FksfWJxan7IhQw0HubcYiQ-MCoS3M2dgHzGIzO02o99udmNopmtFZdpG5yHBDdzsZOT3-L47Y6Uz0LGG79qL3-mcgmlcNBWLn76fvsiEuOaULV1MAZ3jbwMtSeqSPwnVXgwKMm0-ctA5sxnVmFRlAz1iCfleaZHIVxl_YlM1OS0qESeCpMJ-nzm/s1440/A8436B66-0F1B-47F3-BA35-F472062AE882.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2599" data-original-width="1627" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu5ypIX5bLkrt8Aw4NbGfklFyrK5sF2SSsdnQJLcEB1Jhhy_kkqiYW0PCS7NUXRq2sOhqYXCMGvLjczg-tv_k1Wl2VrfzDOD0Ot-dfmEapUpD3Aj682dL1n1lKQRne1_eftNB2VlGn61dceOS32fowSd74bED-Q9SzXJcg2m9Jv4Iv6tjmXvum2ZFqcxKS=w401-h640" width="401" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">'With Love, Grief and Fury' by Salena Godden, <br />beautiful cover design by Valeri Rangelow</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>With Love, Grief and Fury </b>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.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">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.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>pre-orders available here </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/with-love-grief-and-fury/salena-godden/9781805303510" target="_blank">Waterstones</a> </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Grief-Fury-Salena-Godden/dp/1805303511/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701188303&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a> </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzoKVV2IOhb5-jov0GjNkBh9DwkElhguXJdeu2cdT6HooHsVsQWkAhyC8DwwXvnZfAC4O5LxfkUGaQWRLtgnQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil-ArKP8ibasKwK9Q5--sqkC8HC8skrmNSuLzWoUF_MFMyshSYN1gD4MtHA6WIVWbFXwr4GUMMD027J80fXgG-j-Hu0Nl0ti6adWAA38LAD-x5xCkrcu_Qf8p8pHspOOVs8jlb5u4zvtiXRkJc9uAV3zN--_KHS8zsIp5oKh7kshjFtEdzV1Y51z9N70JA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="2488" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil-ArKP8ibasKwK9Q5--sqkC8HC8skrmNSuLzWoUF_MFMyshSYN1gD4MtHA6WIVWbFXwr4GUMMD027J80fXgG-j-Hu0Nl0ti6adWAA38LAD-x5xCkrcu_Qf8p8pHspOOVs8jlb5u4zvtiXRkJc9uAV3zN--_KHS8zsIp5oKh7kshjFtEdzV1Y51z9N70JA=w328-h400" width="328" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg6s5bCdYiRDTwD93vRaHqDH7xfOj2dnW8PPjSFnLVQHyXSrsz9yGzlvPpMLbP_nylp1Ee7RbafydQeZaeo51Ef_eunTR2JkN9BBm5V3QCwwLucHLwBJnRXXv5nO7XbIT080N-7gW54dxt9git3Ta2KHS9qpcDoiQWhqVLAbEZYiwUW61U2OzAZqCW4ZWG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1660" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg6s5bCdYiRDTwD93vRaHqDH7xfOj2dnW8PPjSFnLVQHyXSrsz9yGzlvPpMLbP_nylp1Ee7RbafydQeZaeo51Ef_eunTR2JkN9BBm5V3QCwwLucHLwBJnRXXv5nO7XbIT080N-7gW54dxt9git3Ta2KHS9qpcDoiQWhqVLAbEZYiwUW61U2OzAZqCW4ZWG=w416-h640" width="416" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Springfield Road - A Poets Childhood Revisited</b></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the story of a home. A story rooted in love. The story of a poet born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer, an absent father and a resilient mother. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In <i>Springfield Road</i>, Salena Godden evokes an era when oranges seemed bigger and summers were longer, a world of half-penny sweets, free school milk, hand-me-downs and Thatcher’s Britain, for those too young to remember and for those old enough to know. For Salena, it was a time for learning that life can be brutal with first betrayals and first losses, but also that there are endless riches to be found in the world. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In equal parts powerful, tender and fearless, <i>Springfield Road</i> shows us where, in a world full of shadows, the light is to be found.</span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">pre-orders available here </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-56327903019803461132023-09-04T05:21:00.015-07:002023-11-18T01:51:14.834-08:00Autumn 2023: Poetry Gigs & Book Festivals<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKe9yq0mR_Y0ZRQKnevoQXGyPiGgbpHTeClznhNXXUGOpHu6atKYJ_3_FXeOsynd0GNK983-xFXTUKemD2mbP2b1zrJB7YMHz_lRzJTPG1dW2iwhR3evh4MJOoSLHPlVgFuEe1g4aV-IDVIAJHpNH2hNiKbhZN_6R2yVIVYV40f66UjyVh6fX49I1KcOyN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKe9yq0mR_Y0ZRQKnevoQXGyPiGgbpHTeClznhNXXUGOpHu6atKYJ_3_FXeOsynd0GNK983-xFXTUKemD2mbP2b1zrJB7YMHz_lRzJTPG1dW2iwhR3evh4MJOoSLHPlVgFuEe1g4aV-IDVIAJHpNH2hNiKbhZN_6R2yVIVYV40f66UjyVh6fX49I1KcOyN=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></div></div><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hello my loves, </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thank you to all who came to see me perform and share my books this summer.</span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's some delicious dates, poetry gigs, book festivals for the autumn...</span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia;">Please can you donate to Gboyega's </span><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/gboyega-odubanjo-beloved-son-brother-friend?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer" style="font-family: georgia;">Go Fund Me</a></span></b></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Please scroll down for more, I'll see you soon, thank you. </span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">BIGlove Xxsg</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia;"></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>September 7</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/away-with-words-volume-5-poetry-anthology-launch-at-set-social-tickets-697931922167" target="_blank">Away With Words Vol 5</a> </b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>September 12 </b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bl.uk/events/writersmosaic-presents-anthony-joseph-salena-godden-and-jacqueline-crooks" target="_blank">Writers Mosaic</a> presents... </b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bl.uk/events/writersmosaic-presents-anthony-joseph-salena-godden-and-jacqueline-crooks" target="_blank">Blood and Fire: Passion and Lyricism </a></b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.bl.uk/events/writersmosaic-presents-anthony-joseph-salena-godden-and-jacqueline-crooks" target="_blank">The British Library</a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-with-salena-godden-tickets-676018568737?aff=ebdsoporgprofile" target="_blank">Real Magic Books</a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-with-salena-godden-tickets-676018568737?aff=ebdsoporgprofile" target="_blank">Wendover</a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGJr3qkrjsWk-q5VqLTI1rHjqb1pIC1cTAXcMYTnZ-mX7LOLCDSsR0r19KIQl4w_zN2r66YH3ExfBT-RoxF-w-NNqrlGGVoxgbnS21KLGAfh76juCmMwvrLFO3gLEOspo3zQF2Hp6zpdDYSn2U8JmIcbEsOwT3NnrEsyaOjSvW_5Aw7WxfR3oIrvLGbXdE" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/iona-lee-presents-anamnesis/" target="_blank">Summerhall, Edinburgh</a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhK37QQK6swVbCzJPUlbETJJjCv4ftjL2r7G8f4lPWrw5IbPWWTDUt4uE7ivxUVTXZzcoiYSOXbwAw0raBFpkPPo1he2lSS7L-0linwqvwqe-r5nNOHtCmkWZsT0NngWWmzQ_mquSGicz0vCDp8FjDKlunURlFUWrb0saoJRT5Flgrz-Joa_0QdlLvn_ZGZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="2896" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhK37QQK6swVbCzJPUlbETJJjCv4ftjL2r7G8f4lPWrw5IbPWWTDUt4uE7ivxUVTXZzcoiYSOXbwAw0raBFpkPPo1he2lSS7L-0linwqvwqe-r5nNOHtCmkWZsT0NngWWmzQ_mquSGicz0vCDp8FjDKlunURlFUWrb0saoJRT5Flgrz-Joa_0QdlLvn_ZGZ=w453-h640" width="453" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/nikita-gill/" target="_blank">Henley Literary Festival </a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/nikita-gill/" target="_blank">with Nikita Gill</a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9fEONQgAFHgfFkBAiF_RNlWzPX8sjQYsVaa4QNfm0kmZirQ8Cxdese-000xsJz8xyXjHTbfUjr95gWv-t0ebJn520MfXtWOBUc79tOO3S_pLK7QrhY316S_qJxkVLKaxdkTc9W3L3HfdACDLu_r2FtzlKVxmFOH1gtSo1yaHn3rEAY_i3_kXVTCshKFa5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9fEONQgAFHgfFkBAiF_RNlWzPX8sjQYsVaa4QNfm0kmZirQ8Cxdese-000xsJz8xyXjHTbfUjr95gWv-t0ebJn520MfXtWOBUc79tOO3S_pLK7QrhY316S_qJxkVLKaxdkTc9W3L3HfdACDLu_r2FtzlKVxmFOH1gtSo1yaHn3rEAY_i3_kXVTCshKFa5=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>October 11</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Battersea Bookshop</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://batterseabookshop.com/event-a-history-of-women-in-101-objects-with-annabelle-hirsch-salena-godden-717121298107" target="_blank">'A History of Women in 101 Objects'</a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(128, 1, 128);"><b>Battersea Power Station </b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(128, 1, 128);"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; letter-spacing: 0.14px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Join us in conversation with <b>Annabelle Hirsch</b> and<b> Salena Godden</b> talking about Annablle's remarkable book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A History of Women in 101 Objects: A Walk Through Female History.</em> A vital and beautiful collection that tells a new story of female history through a hundred and one objects, some extraordinary and others everyday.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; letter-spacing: 0.14px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.14px;">A History of Women in 101 Objects </em><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.14px;">tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society through the quiet power of their everyday items. Much of what we’ve read about history focuses on the men in power: women’s stories are too often hidden or considered unremarkable. But in this collection, Annabelle Hirsch curates a compendium of women and their things, uncovering the thoughts and feelings at the heart of women’s daily lives, to offer an intimate and lively alternative history.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="text-align: start;" /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>October 14 </b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://offtheshelf.org.uk" target="_blank">Off The Shelf, </a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://offtheshelf.org.uk" target="_blank">Festival of Words, Sheffield</a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin9F4tPffyVdVkYzOnKcUoQczryBwlooH7wlbs2m6OtJqAIfz6C4e8fwFJgrQUFJDX2wKMi_37U43CkL0_uo3jqNsRIRu0CX5GPH7XxReJDlidtcjsbXlSGKvO5huP90DPuYgKOeafIMPX7Oc6MoCbhfjjO-wmEMeqKoowkde8EyqqhmOOKe5m4Bx2NAyY" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/apples-and-snakes-nylon" target="_blank">London Literature Festival </a></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/apples-and-snakes-nylon" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank</span><span> </span></span></a></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoavSxezXAWFHZskxHveNux-cqIX2aRH5w-8a7xNKVeZ5hcYnc8Wx-MCFFMlg1fEOmjMTMxy7hZGglVuvF0-mJIdVSp-73rGCSnLcTNZjJ8Zkb_Wz62xNrpummMv9wdRRSJluyyrQrOSzRbyXpyYm2ecXzr-6FtzpXg1qlbLOgIQZPgeo4eBzwq22Efctp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoavSxezXAWFHZskxHveNux-cqIX2aRH5w-8a7xNKVeZ5hcYnc8Wx-MCFFMlg1fEOmjMTMxy7hZGglVuvF0-mJIdVSp-73rGCSnLcTNZjJ8Zkb_Wz62xNrpummMv9wdRRSJluyyrQrOSzRbyXpyYm2ecXzr-6FtzpXg1qlbLOgIQZPgeo4eBzwq22Efctp=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #ffd200; font-size: 32px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Acclaimed poets from the US and the UK take centre stage in the final event as part of the spoken word poetry organisation’s 40th anniversary celebrations.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Take part in a captivating evening that celebrates cultural exchange and artistic collaboration, and explores identity, social justice and the complexities of human nature. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We’re joined by Kwame Dawes, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu and Jive Poetic from the US; and Salena Godden and Lemn Sissay from the UK.</span></p><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Supported by some of the UK’s freshest new voices and house band, this event transcends borders, uniting cultures through the universal languages of music and poetry. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Part of the Speak Up Newcomer programme connecting US & UK poets, produced by Apples and Snakes and Young Identity.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Tickets: <a href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/apples-and-snakes-nylon">https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk</a></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidd1ysmjEMScN9nmt0du4GysOZ0niC272w531AlQvzd0xdze-EfZOKfAgbB40yAok775d0i_cPvw8pC_U8LA_NP7AkevDhmh59XIqx5BWk150thrg36rAJIhXW8oS9pxyu6ejssJJEOAuhDtzjteI51W8Plmys4W5LETUc5uOxrZzPY51SvZ5wTwWBhn4u" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Adding one last show for 2023</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Delighted to be joining </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>ONE TRACK MINDS </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>at WILTON'S MUSIC HALL</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Join us for an uplifting evening </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>of music and story telling</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Friday November 24th, 7.30pm</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Tickets: <a href="https://www.wiltons.org.uk/" style="text-align: left;">www.wiltons.org.uk</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIdQJNSgZqw50z6F-8CArGt3MsZfRSfgy521rDEHR_Bf8VCuP8wjZ2jMWNq6FGjYmKJ4Vvs28mj4qIuZKRk6x_f6FR2pZ8s3dAvr4sc-BHglipXlPDCAlRfitZPzE8r3KMgfQCi7f96XlPSIHQZ-PB6SdIUmzbBBfm6Ru5NRwCwr1NVkin7QjnRQjK4XUp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIdQJNSgZqw50z6F-8CArGt3MsZfRSfgy521rDEHR_Bf8VCuP8wjZ2jMWNq6FGjYmKJ4Vvs28mj4qIuZKRk6x_f6FR2pZ8s3dAvr4sc-BHglipXlPDCAlRfitZPzE8r3KMgfQCi7f96XlPSIHQZ-PB6SdIUmzbBBfm6Ru5NRwCwr1NVkin7QjnRQjK4XUp=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOQQFHM8OffxzbsXp4edjOmksBUi0u5MFKGj66r8vUFQ1A5WrKyduwk3Qs05nfDseWSuYWu8GWdmqzDp3AvIA8_tavgQ4fHGqM0P8d8g1oQMzIRKu9_O21a9IpfaJABw82-HxyFuA-PXU6Elgf-FD4V3oUOI-5Hkzff5hmUAckIvAeXp6cfCYrPhjowKhG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="364" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOQQFHM8OffxzbsXp4edjOmksBUi0u5MFKGj66r8vUFQ1A5WrKyduwk3Qs05nfDseWSuYWu8GWdmqzDp3AvIA8_tavgQ4fHGqM0P8d8g1oQMzIRKu9_O21a9IpfaJABw82-HxyFuA-PXU6Elgf-FD4V3oUOI-5Hkzff5hmUAckIvAeXp6cfCYrPhjowKhG=w395-h400" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://www.thepoetryexchange.co.uk" target="_blank"><b>OUT NOW</b>: LATEST EPISODE OF <b>THE POETRY EXCHANGE</b><br /><br />DISCUSSING 'YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS' BY KIM ADDONIZIO</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">BOOK NEWS: I have some poetry published in two new anthologies both out on National Poetry Day, October 5th 2023:</span><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6gDoJ0MZ5nQkufKIcAiwDx48PpPpSw1xaC9P8ltbT9DpS1IVOBrEaYsrRBlvfN0P-Dr9Dciv-66iGyoSaO1ohpCWKBDfKZhthH9wRgF6CWKVMa10Pd7CerDKiyhn8XmnB6vKi6bm9NsnYmRQNtQ5RGY4C7O8a6SwgetcLeCRfbH_CCDh3XvvU_gi7KW3o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6gDoJ0MZ5nQkufKIcAiwDx48PpPpSw1xaC9P8ltbT9DpS1IVOBrEaYsrRBlvfN0P-Dr9Dciv-66iGyoSaO1ohpCWKBDfKZhthH9wRgF6CWKVMa10Pd7CerDKiyhn8XmnB6vKi6bm9NsnYmRQNtQ5RGY4C7O8a6SwgetcLeCRfbH_CCDh3XvvU_gi7KW3o=w262-h400" width="262" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>365 Poems For Life</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia;">PUBLISHED OCTOBER 5th, NATIONAL POETRY DAY </span></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia;">Discover<i style="border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;"> 365 Poems for Life</i>, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">This nourishing poem-a-day collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English language. Whether you’re searching for wisdom or looking to boost your wellbeing, dip into this anthology to share with others or enjoy a quiet moment of calm every day of the year. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Explore a wide range of poets, including Maya Angelou, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest, Dylan Thomas, Ocean Vuong, Salena Godden and many more. The perfect gift for poetry lovers and newbies alike, this beautiful anthology brings a moment of solace every day of the year.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 18px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmEGY2CAQ-OiyCxOtSQWCnYVnbCPDVjlGhUgk7--GP18H8kmo02S3YZiMFsUmtfveStER_lYhXLz1f7blDRwh982_YyyZLSiUKK8ayHz7I9kH0x6VN5szpC4kK9iFeO3naHKCcUXC7o0AHuZGg32gBHK_uju86c_N5MQeObR_72RblJbCG0QUm4GyqOgke" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmEGY2CAQ-OiyCxOtSQWCnYVnbCPDVjlGhUgk7--GP18H8kmo02S3YZiMFsUmtfveStER_lYhXLz1f7blDRwh982_YyyZLSiUKK8ayHz7I9kH0x6VN5szpC4kK9iFeO3naHKCcUXC7o0AHuZGg32gBHK_uju86c_N5MQeObR_72RblJbCG0QUm4GyqOgke=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p style="appearance: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(57, 83, 98); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Forward Book of Poetry 2024</span></b></span></p><p style="appearance: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(57, 83, 98); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia;">PUBLISHED OCTOBER 5th, NATIONAL POETRY DAY</span></b></p><p style="appearance: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 83, 98);"><i>The Forward Book of Poetry 2024</i> brings together the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the 2024 Forward Prizes. In showcasing the range and ambition of today’s fresh voices alongside new work by familiar names, this anthology is a perfect introduction to contemporary poetry. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 83, 98);">The Forward Prizes are invaluable in finding the most essential, exciting voices, highlighting the contemporary poets who are at the top of their game and whose words will travel far and reach many readers. <i>The Forward Book Of Poetry</i> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 83, 98); font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">brings together the best poetry from 2023, including great work shortlisted and Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 83, 98); font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">In showcasing the range and ambition of today’s fresh voices alongside work by familiar names, this anthology is both a perfect introduction to contemporary poetry and invaluable for the seasoned poetry reader.</span></span></p><p style="appearance: none; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Highly Commended Poems by</span></strong></p><p style="appearance: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(57, 83, 98); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">AJ Akoto · Anthony Anaxagorou · Vicci Bentley · Tara Bergin · Liz Berry · Laurie Bolger · Chen Chen · Geraldine Clarkson · Rishi Dastidar · Akwaeke Emezi · Katie Farris · Salena Godden · Em Gray · Elle Heedles · Selima Hill · Emma Jeremy · Majella Kelly · Victoria Kennefick · Karl Knights · Zaffar Kunial · Nick Laird · Vanessa Lampert · Fran Lock · Adam Lowe · Arji Manuelpillai · Joseph Minden · Emma Must · Daljit Nagra · Selina Nwulu · Damen O’Brien · Sean O’Brien · Pádraig Ó Tuama · Sandeep Parmar · Rhiya Pau · Michael Pedersen · Geoffrey Philp · Stav Poleg · Jacob Polley · Shivanee Ramlochan · Yvonne Reddick · Deryn Rees-Jones · Dean Rhetoric · Roger Robinson · Declan Ryan · Jacqueline Saphra · Celia A Sorhaindo · Ahren Warner · Nerys Williams · Anna Woodford · Luke Samuel Yates ·</span></p><p style="appearance: none; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheaFriYBRGVcuNbSkgmbHHaeoUVwipl4_8rnbl821kq8HpV80G07a6Lyr8ejzpIBGBrbE1CvTnVz-ZmVuDhd2PiwE6fWw56YywuHgGrTsz_msi9V2CMKB0l77p-axod0M_v2joBVI0RgKl2X-rk-OTRH6YHQU3e32deBYNQQuRXUo5W_Poyq9AwXWPS5Ej" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheaFriYBRGVcuNbSkgmbHHaeoUVwipl4_8rnbl821kq8HpV80G07a6Lyr8ejzpIBGBrbE1CvTnVz-ZmVuDhd2PiwE6fWw56YywuHgGrTsz_msi9V2CMKB0l77p-axod0M_v2joBVI0RgKl2X-rk-OTRH6YHQU3e32deBYNQQuRXUo5W_Poyq9AwXWPS5Ej=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The summer of 2023 ends with the devastating and tragic death of beautiful poet Gboyega Odubanjo. I share this poem and the</span></span> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">link to the<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/gboyega-odubanjo-beloved-son-brother-friend?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer" target="_blank"> Go Fund Me</a> - Please donate and share this!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I was performing at Shambala with so many of you and feel so sad and sorry and shocked that this young star and brilliant poet was lost. I stand in grief and solidarity with my global poetry family, with Gboyega's friends and family, I share this with all my love and condolences.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/gboyega-odubanjo-beloved-son-brother-friend?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer" target="_blank"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please share and donate: </span></span></span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/gboyega-odubanjo-beloved-son-brother-friend?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer" target="_blank"><b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">www.gofundme.com/f/gboyega-odubanjo</span></span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsVKgKjkUvEqotpfDZCxOsuhbHkLBBxoo91y-ajeiLAnmwi6UgnkyAvQdSZ16jl4YnzfRyQOKXQyg0yrPU0F3gEnHMTk-XLIukjmvvK9hklQFAg0DCiLT8r2BhmGRAb_y8eI8uN-1A4aalq2W7Cu5Wlt-72X6KBq4n7FCzlcc5B-xlVoUMjldQhezOkOjo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1170" height="577" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsVKgKjkUvEqotpfDZCxOsuhbHkLBBxoo91y-ajeiLAnmwi6UgnkyAvQdSZ16jl4YnzfRyQOKXQyg0yrPU0F3gEnHMTk-XLIukjmvvK9hklQFAg0DCiLT8r2BhmGRAb_y8eI8uN-1A4aalq2W7Cu5Wlt-72X6KBq4n7FCzlcc5B-xlVoUMjldQhezOkOjo=w640-h577" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); white-space: pre-wrap;">Gboyega’s family have started a </span></span><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/gboyega-odubanjo-beloved-son-brother-friend?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer" style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Go Fund Me</a><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); white-space: pre-wrap;"> to support his final arrangements and to start The Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation. Please donate and support. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">"We are launching the <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/gboyega-odubanjo-beloved-son-brother-friend?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer" target="_blank">Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation</a> for low-income Black writers, with funds from this appeal also going towards the foundation. His poetry and writing has been a beacon of light to many."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gboyega is, and will continue to be, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">the best of us.</span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCjK7aFfYDefxiRbmjDaTjSFqNGd-uo6lBoMe5Og8ZT-hzl8Knpv06VRLMkAPgyZNMpxq3pg3bUhH1wotVyeh-QUk77NMs8tmFkxiR7nTrKjF4si6kT1hsdPBReC-zyIOJtKyVK3B78ADr0LPTbbXy3DJ_eqBUD4R2sQOi5o-zmt8mR7NKSuXYYYi6C37t" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOlif6tc4xrhGUmts7Bedy9urDuiji-yP_cyBV3AQqKe23A6DmU77CsmYMl3OeUnt-w76perKEtyJR9QjuBd5f1K3DDyIQnVmmnidCteKVtEUiwyaDSmJR0_MQ9yNNKlwTUT7zRrSinZMeJzZcfSZ-izm40l7CIchKt7luJrCGMG4Uxmwt-nAQcDVkhKCJ/s7008/Salena%20Glasses.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4672" data-original-width="7008" height="427" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOlif6tc4xrhGUmts7Bedy9urDuiji-yP_cyBV3AQqKe23A6DmU77CsmYMl3OeUnt-w76perKEtyJR9QjuBd5f1K3DDyIQnVmmnidCteKVtEUiwyaDSmJR0_MQ9yNNKlwTUT7zRrSinZMeJzZcfSZ-izm40l7CIchKt7luJrCGMG4Uxmwt-nAQcDVkhKCJ/w640-h427/Salena%20Glasses.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">Salena Godden by Beccy Strong, summer 2023<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sharing some new portraits taken by Beccy Strong<br /><br />These pics taken when I was writing in Totnes, May 2023<br /><br />We had so much fun doing this shoot ...<br /><br />I had such a happy time down in Totnes, thank you Xx<br /><br />Check out more of Beccy Strong's work here:<br /><br /><a href="http://beccystrong.com/" style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left;" target="_blank">beccystrong.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.beccystrongfilms.com/" target="_blank">www.beccystrongfilms.com</a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7CJund81j7q1P3JOdoyqADFnFziAz024p_-uyU9Yg5_maqzZQ_6567vAQGBVldXPHOB4-aOOOYNXaGY_ymaW5gDi9beaHSwBcX8OnJ9A7lg1RlDqI6uTgPCq5KqLXLjxBitk73NyNosMaDweIXQPru2W5wxtQuc6_nmdY8dILhEauFTQMLjxHuMaZDd43/s7008/Salena-4.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="7008" data-original-width="4672" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7CJund81j7q1P3JOdoyqADFnFziAz024p_-uyU9Yg5_maqzZQ_6567vAQGBVldXPHOB4-aOOOYNXaGY_ymaW5gDi9beaHSwBcX8OnJ9A7lg1RlDqI6uTgPCq5KqLXLjxBitk73NyNosMaDweIXQPru2W5wxtQuc6_nmdY8dILhEauFTQMLjxHuMaZDd43/w426-h640/Salena-4.jpg" width="426" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: georgia; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;">Coming up, f</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;">estivals 2023 </span></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://www.womad.co.uk/" style="text-align: start; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">WOMAD</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;"> July 30th </span></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://www.greengathering.org.uk/" style="text-align: start; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">GREEN GATHERING</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;"> August 5th </span></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://www.shambalafestival.org/" style="text-align: start; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">SHAMBALA</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;"> August 25t</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;">h</span></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">See you soon my loves Xx </span></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #04ff00;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #04ff00;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #04ff00;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69baQKYWZoXQz0Xt8ZoakjsaGU-UDwIwHD_EESrpp1AK6yDxbjPOxEWQsIgu45RjV3IZ-eqGYd9pG8Rg003f0TZoPPaqklaX4bw4PGtrnNqA_vXxfEcQcLYA_VqxFlGh505pdfCBO1oYLQYqrzljvJKBss5HUdt5Yx57vtj0wreFk2_TM4AZP2uHC_4Ay/s680/FuorXX4WwAkPbgW.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="567" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69baQKYWZoXQz0Xt8ZoakjsaGU-UDwIwHD_EESrpp1AK6yDxbjPOxEWQsIgu45RjV3IZ-eqGYd9pG8Rg003f0TZoPPaqklaX4bw4PGtrnNqA_vXxfEcQcLYA_VqxFlGh505pdfCBO1oYLQYqrzljvJKBss5HUdt5Yx57vtj0wreFk2_TM4AZP2uHC_4Ay/w534-h640/FuorXX4WwAkPbgW.png" width="534" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 13px; text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div dir="auto"><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Mrs Death Misses Death</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/14914-salena-godden/" style="text-decoration: none;">https://canongate.co.uk</a></span></b></span></div></div></span></span></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); 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font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCp11BVe7MC3Z2u3MxGnFQUTH3U6PHz9qgbT6Sb1K7DX1xwFucKSHTPxvCXubKj50UwqgHpLf9Z0qAvAnF_rSu5Z6iN8kk1WhPFwrDpP6yZ4UeFVr41G_9AovxhMaYe0iZU80bcQhpAo6GvC0JMeMESd5oPqAkue1L_5cXSbCDAM4P83jTIjXwuh8MX6si" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCp11BVe7MC3Z2u3MxGnFQUTH3U6PHz9qgbT6Sb1K7DX1xwFucKSHTPxvCXubKj50UwqgHpLf9Z0qAvAnF_rSu5Z6iN8kk1WhPFwrDpP6yZ4UeFVr41G_9AovxhMaYe0iZU80bcQhpAo6GvC0JMeMESd5oPqAkue1L_5cXSbCDAM4P83jTIjXwuh8MX6si=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hello there,</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Some happy personal news: </span></span><span style="color: #444444; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m excited to share the news that I have been awarded an Honorary Fellowship at West Dean. </span><span style="color: #444444; white-space: pre-wrap;">At a ceremony held on July 8th in the glorious </span><span style="color: #444444;">West Dean estate in the warm sunshine myself and author Joanna Moorhead were made Honorary Fellows and given our certificates. Then we each gave short acceptance speeches. It was such a memorable and joyful experience. We also presented the awards to all the brilliant students who were graduating that day. I met so many wonderful people and had such a lovely time. I am so looking forward to exploring West Dean more and writing books here. The gardens and orchards and landscape, interior and exterior are exquisite.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As someone who went to secondary school and sixth form college in Sussex but was unable to make it to university this is such a wonderful honour. Thank you to all at West Dean and Sussex University. Thanks also to my brother Gus and partner Richard who were there too</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I send congratulations to my fellow Fellows: Sue Timney, Joanna Moorhead and Alexandria Dauley and congratulations also to all the amazing graduate students I met and chatted with that day.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the after party someone came up to me and asked me if they could have a copy of my speech. I felt self conscious as I had wept a little onstage and gone off page so I didn't want them to have my crumpled pages - I felt incredibly shy about it all. Now a few days have passed so I will publish an excerpt of my speech here on my blog in case that person finds it and sees this. </span></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">What a beautiful day! Thank you!</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you! Thank you! </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">sgxx</span></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Read more here - <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.westdean.ac.uk/?fbclid=IwAR3lbGb6nS1kT9N_Km5ha0w9uHRaa_wpJmWqvP9UniduP-4np9vz-uYitQU" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.westdean.ac.uk</a> </span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEnrX5quKGLuKtmNM4zVstMGQVyNcixMCb4UcwDVpk-5tOJb3_P5f82PtRjgCJ2eXEugRCLYlQJvbCsMOgQU8agJL2R7cBFC9SDqCTsiU9CTKcz3-mp5kOzZJ3Rf-R4UDDpjCyFsvQuyL00Ro1Gx1PzHVEUGU0Rx8ffazyZSwcuJd-cueLZvo1tQS53Spb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEnrX5quKGLuKtmNM4zVstMGQVyNcixMCb4UcwDVpk-5tOJb3_P5f82PtRjgCJ2eXEugRCLYlQJvbCsMOgQU8agJL2R7cBFC9SDqCTsiU9CTKcz3-mp5kOzZJ3Rf-R4UDDpjCyFsvQuyL00Ro1Gx1PzHVEUGU0Rx8ffazyZSwcuJd-cueLZvo1tQS53Spb=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7q4bcxv2SHU4iI2h-b0NlJtCL7JhGNW4-2_BBmeiLw74uycwXrHAHaJbymlMfCSUkcVvdK2OfAsy2qd-_LwAkUrMRCD0ID2uFr8tntVQsCm7ffAaa0RPQm-V6JoGrFIiIDZZuU1XX2Tn0Tpga0XjHiSD5OhqPjaXrkYRJhNplE8nQdMn9xqCs2B1Ibptv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7q4bcxv2SHU4iI2h-b0NlJtCL7JhGNW4-2_BBmeiLw74uycwXrHAHaJbymlMfCSUkcVvdK2OfAsy2qd-_LwAkUrMRCD0ID2uFr8tntVQsCm7ffAaa0RPQm-V6JoGrFIiIDZZuU1XX2Tn0Tpga0XjHiSD5OhqPjaXrkYRJhNplE8nQdMn9xqCs2B1Ibptv=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">West Dean Fellowship Acceptance Speech (excerpt)</span></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><p align="JUSTIFY" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: 13pt;">It is a huge honour to be invited to receive an Honorary Fellowship at West Dean. This is such an inspiring place to write, to nourish ideas and art, creativity and visions. I enjoyed a memorable time as writer-in residence at West Dean and loved exploring the beautiful grounds and gardens. I worked on the first draft of my next novel here and wrote lots of ideas and poetry sitting under these glorious trees. I'm so grateful and so happy to be selected for this. It is an encouragement and a wonderful gift.</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">As so many of the graduates here today will be entering a range of creative and conservation careers, I have been asked to say a few words on how my own education influenced my career and opportunities. Well, the truth is I went to an ordinary secondary school in Hastings and sixth from college in Bexhill and also Hastings art college. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">Overall looking back I enjoyed school because I loved books. However, after sixth form college I did not find a way into further education. I had already left home at around age sixteen and seventeen and so I had to find rent and feed and clothe myself and start this work. </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;">If I was honest I didn’t feel like I belonged in the education system, that I was different or that I wanted to do something different. I was impatient and headstrong and I wanted to get to work in the real world and go to London to make books and records. So I guess London was my university and Soho was my classroom. It was a magic place where my wild heart and big dreams and creative freedom had room to grow. I was learning skills in live performance and theatre, how to book shows and also how to make invoices to get paid; how to promote and produce my work, how the cogs of record companies and publishing turned. I worked two jobs, my first job was working backstage at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane during the first run of Miss Saigon. My other job was working at Acid Jazz records where I started as a receptionist and got promoted to A&R. I loved it, I dealt with bands and learned how to cut vinyl. I was out and about at poetry gigs and music gigs most nights, I remember soaking everything up, watching, learning.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: 13pt;">Now, If you told the 1990s me that 2020s me would be standing here today, that she would be thriving and healthy and happy and making the work she wants to make, she would not believe it. She was self doubting and self sabotaging, she was rejected and underestimated, struggling in a world that told her that her story, her voice, her work did not belong and did not matter. </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">If I was to pass on anything like advice to the brilliant graduates here today it would be this: Go where the love is. Enjoy belonging in the unbelonging, it is where the good work is made. It is where the truth lives. I would want you all to know that doing the hard thing and the most difficult thing is very often the right thing to do. Imposter syndrome is your signal: If you are in a room and you are cosy and comfortable and you feel like you are belonging and you feel safe, it is highly likely you are not challenging yourself or pushing yourself and your work. Put it this way, I do not feel comfortable standing here reading this speech and so because of that I am glad </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">to be here. </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">When you make your work you are walking into the unknown, I want you to imagine you are walking into ocean, I feel you should always feel a little out of depth. </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">What is the point of making work where you stay in the shallow and can always feel the soft warm sand beneath your feet? Go deep as you dare and you will get the results you desire. Stay humble and keep your integrity and gratitude in check. And before I go </span><span style="font-size: 17.333334px;">I</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> will leave you with this quote, my favourite quote right now is from the great artist and conservationist Cesar Manrique “If it should be done - it can be done” so keep on keeping on...</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Thank you.</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheJFBVjSBkrc1zFeFGPPjypAxgujzd5WiI8K_CqcAh4YxG7HzoRjd5A9LGz9NU0R9IYyhoLDUfkNeBNpbHeuo-OvaWg2ASq5EfmxE7hAonTtqWxMrC5Z7pTriTxZ4_HkLTimBxfs5ObTE98s_CN74N4z63_G_rkAWaD_VWyekJli4vAxLPyvYh9EAPXa09" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;" width="525" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salena Godden and Catherine Kurtz </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdYir3cDbEObdEdkv8ZSz9kCSgJatmaDj--z2iPLwy4VQz4U851UyAO3l1fd1gjUTGKr0WKabPOYPKzGGF55EQFNRAopVZkdl5xLQbusgoSKQq5iuyPQ-rNQRWMKoaVXorUwpeOgd_d5KTYhpo_fgJgoKxRZdzSWzpLO31nmCRzHITlHkiKSG0oprtfAJj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7PByPZSutxk_TDSPZwIxqDGSv2ntR9pX9XrcGr4XKJ16R3nkWAwC_zAKxg7n-f46lfPFiz60aiyFE-ey6h-_ggPUL9TmhB0sebUjoovJXqFftWBci63f_bGnvEgJcetv_9ai9GmCkbuXaA-jLNX2tR-E5_LNeXH0aDU-AQK2HCqh-u1QAl3j-MKPbcvDn" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7PByPZSutxk_TDSPZwIxqDGSv2ntR9pX9XrcGr4XKJ16R3nkWAwC_zAKxg7n-f46lfPFiz60aiyFE-ey6h-_ggPUL9TmhB0sebUjoovJXqFftWBci63f_bGnvEgJcetv_9ai9GmCkbuXaA-jLNX2tR-E5_LNeXH0aDU-AQK2HCqh-u1QAl3j-MKPbcvDn=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">West Dean's new Honorary Fellows: Salena Godden and Joanna Moorhead</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div></div>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-36685926119039627232023-06-24T03:15:00.005-07:002023-06-24T03:19:44.059-07:00Poem: My Heart Is A Boat | Windrush 75 | The Royal Albert Hall<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA3qMSwr1udDmTv18K0ucrZ9svOZDvFo3UYq3BRrKYQUulxPMo6Ce7fNJojTU4RxN33fqohsOIz6rfl68VTDXe3---WI18lKusePLMOxMuExmR_rIXjEgX4Y_ws7te2yL_t8Gb0bF1t9dbogFv3qEbg0I4qhBhQ6Es2Z6lR9V4VrhXTgtQD5skQlvTH4xf/s6863/Salena-20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4575" data-original-width="6863" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA3qMSwr1udDmTv18K0ucrZ9svOZDvFo3UYq3BRrKYQUulxPMo6Ce7fNJojTU4RxN33fqohsOIz6rfl68VTDXe3---WI18lKusePLMOxMuExmR_rIXjEgX4Y_ws7te2yL_t8Gb0bF1t9dbogFv3qEbg0I4qhBhQ6Es2Z6lR9V4VrhXTgtQD5skQlvTH4xf/w640-h426/Salena-20.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NEW PORTRAIT BY BECCY STRONG.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRuId2JhDBmAeBs0q-M1JJn46ZeRs-3G0VSgGVvhHlw5P604anTghaSggrrzC1tnRLKi99Ai3WetPBwvFWcsS6S3gk0CMdMCLHA8xd3d4ssas60gwhZwEaDJ99N1eqpH7-FyEc29VP700nO5_hm3KBJ0ac9kiZs-OyL--fjcbJLNppIBnhEN1sU7S3kPNj/s8533/100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5649" data-original-width="8533" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRuId2JhDBmAeBs0q-M1JJn46ZeRs-3G0VSgGVvhHlw5P604anTghaSggrrzC1tnRLKi99Ai3WetPBwvFWcsS6S3gk0CMdMCLHA8xd3d4ssas60gwhZwEaDJ99N1eqpH7-FyEc29VP700nO5_hm3KBJ0ac9kiZs-OyL--fjcbJLNppIBnhEN1sU7S3kPNj/w640-h424/100.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hello! Good morning,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">I'm drinking tea and watching the sunrise and I feel like writing a blog post and taking a moment to process and share some poetry and thoughts and photos here on my blog from the amazing Windrush 75 concert at The Royal Albert Hall before it fades into memory, and before I jump into the next shiny thing. You will find more clips on my insta and tiktok and twitter but I have always liked to treat this blog like a scrap book, keeping an archive of highlights and my adventures in making books and poetry and gigs over the decades. Thank you to anyone following this page, hello to any new people who find me here. Welcome. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Firstly, thank you for all of your comments and messages about this one gig and poem. </span></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I was blown away by your messages, thank you. I was so honoured and so excited to be invited by Trevor Nelson to perform and write a piece for the Windrush 75 Concert. I was also nervous about it as I knew I wanted to write something new for it. I was not sure where to begin to try to capture this moment in history and experience, and my own feelings about Windrush and heritage and ancestry and migration and colonialism and empire in a poem to be broadcast on the BBC and perform to peers and elders on such a big stage. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">I left London and headed south to perform two lovely shows in Exeter and Totnes and stayed down there for a while with dear friends on the coast. I looked at the Devon skies and seas and sun rises and went deep into the themes of this poem and the process. I knew right away that I wanted to fill the Royal Albert Hall with the ocean, with timelessness and the weight of ocean water and our conversation with it. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">I wanted to share in that united feeling that we are not all in the same boat, and that so many of us came here by boat, and that many are still arriving by boat, and how we are all connected in blood and saltwater. I wanted to celebrate that we share the same time in history, that we share an ancient resilience and courage. As some of you know I am currently working on the second <i>Mrs Death Misses Death</i> novel and so this was setting the tone for me and leaking into my writing, I was visualising and dreaming of Mrs Death filling the Albert Hall with ocean, with ancestors and ghosts, with loss and grief, and with BIGlove, ONE Love. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I intentionally chose to write a rhythmic flowing poem with rhyming verses, as I often have done for show pieces, for protest poetry, for poetry that is to be performed to large crowds and also for poetry I want to perform to music. </span></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Every time I started writing this, I kept coming back to the last verse from another short poem 'No Holds Barred' (published in Pessimism is for Lightweights) and so this became my starting point and here was where I found my chorus and title...</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>my heart is a boat</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>my ancestors longships</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>my grandmothers Windrush</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>the rubber dinghies sunk without trace </i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As I performed the piece we played loops of the ocean crashing to shore and watery blue and green and golden light filling the Albert Hall. There was an undercurrent, a low bass line played by Chineke Orchestra. Chris Cameron was the musical director, thank you for helping me pull this together and make this dream come true. <i>"Now we know how many seas it takes to fill the Albert Hall"</i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: start;">Finally I should mention this: when I received the invitation to do this gig I asked to have a kimono made by artist Diane Goldie with a shimmering picture of ‘Queen Nanny’ on the back. I stood on stage wearing this</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> stunning art kimono</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> decorated with Jamaican hibiscus and hummingbirds. I had Queen Nanny on my back: Nanny of the Maroons. Rebel Queen. She who fought for the freedom for 1000’s of enslaved peoples and led a revolution against the tyranny of colonialism and the slave trade.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ67xxhihDdLgtmhgM19G3WtUOvpKXVLghXHoIhq6MzBloub_sdMT98Seku624gDpUs3A-aJJAx7kxdideabmiHaO8j-Wzed9QhvE83ECnKGi6mMqwq0w360gm3ivjjBVfXbDNQBfvAd2IxWV-i5z0iAxOvs39aF3kMaM_I9laoJllO_ZE7Oac_5TNpx-x/s2120/PhotoRoom_20230530_101014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2120" data-original-width="1119" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ67xxhihDdLgtmhgM19G3WtUOvpKXVLghXHoIhq6MzBloub_sdMT98Seku624gDpUs3A-aJJAx7kxdideabmiHaO8j-Wzed9QhvE83ECnKGi6mMqwq0w360gm3ivjjBVfXbDNQBfvAd2IxWV-i5z0iAxOvs39aF3kMaM_I9laoJllO_ZE7Oac_5TNpx-x/s320/PhotoRoom_20230530_101014.jpg" width="169" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfPebuyWcUdu71qJTeiMEl7QMW_BVUEntgRsaLDgiYc9znmq4XGTOAotNa3TNllVcNT3fAgY2qTOBB-fguAou9mFYB7rHTyK5CitGhiT3CgO-zZREV8F1uvk2vrPOhV_lRtcY2cz9-B7lEqUttgNbRQ8twvNj7pPsGrnZ9Fb0Sc_2FL-cdNcuFpwB8M-t1/s2202/PhotoRoom_20230530_101219.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2202" data-original-width="1619" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfPebuyWcUdu71qJTeiMEl7QMW_BVUEntgRsaLDgiYc9znmq4XGTOAotNa3TNllVcNT3fAgY2qTOBB-fguAou9mFYB7rHTyK5CitGhiT3CgO-zZREV8F1uvk2vrPOhV_lRtcY2cz9-B7lEqUttgNbRQ8twvNj7pPsGrnZ9Fb0Sc_2FL-cdNcuFpwB8M-t1/s320/PhotoRoom_20230530_101219.jpg" width="235" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><i>“If you know your history, then you will know where I am coming from..” </i>I thank Diane </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">so much for making this spectacular piece for me, for this show, for the poetry, for this heart, I will always wear this very special kimono with pride and with love. Thank you. </span><span style="text-align: start;">With the rebel Queen Nanny of the Maroons on my back and my grandmothers beads around my throat, I felt like anything I didn’t get into the poetry was empowered and represented in this way visually and spiritually.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So, this was a dream gig. And I won't ever forget it. I was so happy to be invited to participate. As poets we dream to be invited to share truth and hope, to be who we are and dance with our elders and ancestors and share our bright fierce souls and shine our heart out. Sending thanks to everyone, thank you to all the legends and heroes on stage and back stage and to the warm audiences in Royal Albert Hall and at home as it was broadcast on BBC Radio 2. Thanks to the ancestors that got us all here.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It is my birthday this weekend and so I gift you all the text of this poem to read here today. I'm excited to be this age, enjoying doing the work I love and writing the books I want to write. This past year or so has been a helter-skelter time, but we keep on keeping on and feel blessed today.</span></p><p style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My next performances will be headline shows at <a href="https://www.womad.co.uk" target="_blank">WOMAD</a> July 30th, <a href="https://www.greengathering.org.uk" target="_blank">GREEN GATHERING</a> August 5th and then <a href="https://www.shambalafestival.org" target="_blank">SHAMBALA</a> August 25th - See you in some happy summer field or singing by a smoky camp fire very soon. Happy midsummers! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Keep on sailing,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Your heart is a boat!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Thank you, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">sgxx</span></p><p style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">es the Place for Me, Bob Marl</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large; text-align: start;"><b>BBC: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n2pq?fbclid=IwAR1D9XqlYC7WCuMGO7hzq85uqm5ive2W8QphIjdWw9SHqIJqezhWV0v_M-g" style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: start;" target="_blank">WINDRUSH 75, ROYAL ALBERT HALL</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"On Thursday 22 June 1948, an ex-troop ship called the Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, carrying 800 passengers who had left behind their homes in the Caribbean for a new life in Britain. Radio 2 and BBC Sounds commemorate the 75th anniversary of Windrush with a series of programmes, including this special one-off concert for Radio 2, curated and hosted by Trevor Nelson. Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, the concert features an array of guest stars, including Craig David, Beverley Knight, R&B group Loose Ends, saxophonist YolanDa Brown, calypsonian Tobago Crusoe, G-folk pioneer Hak Baker and award-winning author and poet Salena Godden. Accompanied by the Chineke Orchestra, conducted by Chris Cameron. The concert captures the breadth of musical influence which the Windrush generation has had on British culture over the last 75 years, with performances including Loose Ends’ Hangin’ On a String, Hak Baker’s Windrush Baby, and Craig David’s Fill Me In, as well as renditions of classic tracks like Lord Kitchener’s London is the Place for Me, Bob Marley’s Is this Love, and Goldie’s Inner City Life."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdpeQBjCSM8XtCtESStPJf_ib_vsFsqqkVVp2hu3zm6VgnEK56nNbjnSrlfZF4mttrB2-1PusuNhn3DWdHiBjqkWrLmR9KqoVBx0JjTnfAbyEPVA4M9JPKErK1GO6mb2O78_o5Jve1D7r9sXcuaxsngKcPG7qXPOoHMqXS3E87wItOGf5lCzQgDrIy3iuj/s6479/103.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4319" data-original-width="6479" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdpeQBjCSM8XtCtESStPJf_ib_vsFsqqkVVp2hu3zm6VgnEK56nNbjnSrlfZF4mttrB2-1PusuNhn3DWdHiBjqkWrLmR9KqoVBx0JjTnfAbyEPVA4M9JPKErK1GO6mb2O78_o5Jve1D7r9sXcuaxsngKcPG7qXPOoHMqXS3E87wItOGf5lCzQgDrIy3iuj/w640-h426/103.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="break-before: page; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>My Heart Is A Boat</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>We're outside a pub</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>and she's yelling</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>telling me to</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>get back on my boat</b></i></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>My friends say </span><span><i>she's just racist</i></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>but I put down my rum</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>and walk over and ask</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>do you need a hug?</b></i></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>I stand with open arms</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>as wide as a map of the world</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>she bursts into tears</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>I hold her for a while</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>My jacket gets stained</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>in orange foundation</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>my lapels are streaked </b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>with black mascara</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The pub is rumbling </b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>under the mad full moon</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>and the spring tide</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>crashes to shore</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>My heart is a boat</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>My ancestors longships</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>My grandmothers Windrush</b></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The rubber dinghies sunk without trace.</b></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>(audio begins: slow low bass line, ocean soundtrack)</b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>whispering:</b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>My heart is a boat </b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>My ancestors long ships </b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>My grandmothers Windrush </b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>The rubber dinghies sunk without trace </b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Vast ocean and destiny </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The horizon, the sea</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Home in my bones</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Forever singing to me</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The unknown ahead</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The unseen and untold</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ancients, old souls </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Their stories unfold</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ancestors spirit </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Holding them dear</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ghosts of the elders</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>History lives here</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The truth under water</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The thin paper words</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Welcome to Britain</b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Cold and unheard</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>And who's left behind?</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>And what did you leave?</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Shivering at Tilbury Dock </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Your young hope and belief </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Come willing, come able</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Your mother country calls</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>To build the war effort</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>To build road and walls</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Hale and hearty</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Immigrant sons</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Sent to the front line</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Trench foot and guns</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Taking a bullet </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March side by side</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>For country, for crown</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>For honour, for pride</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Singing Jerusalem </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>This green pleasant land</b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Give with whole heart</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Take with gloved hand</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Movement of people</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The tall tales told</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Invited to London</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The streets paved with gold</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>We bring the music</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Culture, colour, spice</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Trading the sunshine</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>For rain, snow and ice</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Trading the peoples</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Sugar canes daughter</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>If Kingston is my pepper</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Then London my salt water</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>And the rivers of tears</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>That stick in the throat</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>We'll sail to the truth </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>My heart is a boat </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>We dream of the heat</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The warmth of home</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>We dream of the soil</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Where our roots were grown</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>My heart is a boat</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>And I sail through time</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>My boat has a heart</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>We share the bloodline</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Our heart is a boat</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Our boat is a heart</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Keeping us united </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>When we're torn apart </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>See the ocean at night</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Stars shifting above </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Mirrored in moonlight </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Reflecting ONE LOVE</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The seabed is a cemetery</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Nameless, timeless, space</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Sea water holding memories</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Of past, person, place</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Our boat is a heart</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>And love is for free</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Welcome aboard</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Us, them and we</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>(ocean soundtrack fading out...)</b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>whispering singing: </b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i>My heart is a boat </i></span><i> </i></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>My heart is a boat </b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>My heart is a boat</b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><b>My heart is a boat</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large; text-align: start;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's some behind the senes pics by me </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and also official images by Andy Paradise:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TLlDCQQxrcwUOx7E34ecoBF8feHs4JYKJ1bIwmIZtEnNwUmaikdVOvs0E3KpZnldIQi5UjoL1nCPjSHbvCPWKkjdkQC3bZscPl1V-S2PdHf25q-pZEg7dvxVcDnvYFivgCEBHw6FJ_GkWm_2jY6Y4IKE4jx0WfZvuMjhChuc017UyR-G7_JoHEMhB3XC/s4032/IMG_6050.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_TLlDCQQxrcwUOx7E34ecoBF8feHs4JYKJ1bIwmIZtEnNwUmaikdVOvs0E3KpZnldIQi5UjoL1nCPjSHbvCPWKkjdkQC3bZscPl1V-S2PdHf25q-pZEg7dvxVcDnvYFivgCEBHw6FJ_GkWm_2jY6Y4IKE4jx0WfZvuMjhChuc017UyR-G7_JoHEMhB3XC/s320/IMG_6050.jpeg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgErl0-RN7UWE9FWu-BO29YEs_f3wK-0Q8NcoPy7_VXPcTy7VoWCmxrRXfBR288QfJLDcWRMnCtMH2K9uaEpSf0jyhejyx0bi-Z7-8JV7-g9cTM4pb74oVmHqP2bM7s9cPn5TPaPbN2mjZzf3-Egf2aEjg4cq6Wl5Sj0J2sIWeLLb5jqcXqGELx76JtuDtl/s4032/IMG_6054.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://roughtradebooks.com/collections/books/products/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-hardback-salena-godden" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;"><b>https://roughtradebooks.com</b></a></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Mrs Death Misses Death</b></span></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #4d469c; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/14914-salena-godden/" style="color: #4d469c; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: start;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-65644705267810722402023-04-13T02:36:00.018-07:002023-06-09T01:53:33.331-07:00EVENTS & FESTIVALS: SPRING & SUMMER 2023 <p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #01ffff;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #01ffff;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTfMGt69xqm_Q7eYDpypDs5tvCUOkig7MUPjeph5eS9v_zffo2NNNUmbzrLMGBRJUHn5KMiaaxZhrXu-0ovl1BQPe-d0Fxmin6ocO7w4Dtpah6SIGLu52KqBUAypVvW6NFQcpNRsawj9onVLy-LbdyvX6c1E0yCLdn9x5GTLQXiGR908M8EevVxhlSbA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTfMGt69xqm_Q7eYDpypDs5tvCUOkig7MUPjeph5eS9v_zffo2NNNUmbzrLMGBRJUHn5KMiaaxZhrXu-0ovl1BQPe-d0Fxmin6ocO7w4Dtpah6SIGLu52KqBUAypVvW6NFQcpNRsawj9onVLy-LbdyvX6c1E0yCLdn9x5GTLQXiGR908M8EevVxhlSbA=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #01ffff;"><br /><br /></span></b></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Spring is springing and so here's some gigs and festivals.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Keep an eye on this blog for news and updates... </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'll also be updating my linktree as more is confirmed</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><a href="https://linktr.ee/salenagodden" target="_blank">linktree: <span style="text-align: left;">https://linktr.ee/salenagodden</span></a> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: medium;">See you very soon my lovelies! sgxx</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3gTOmfbV-xuHTyFhs-kGoeJqs4klYP9FTEtBh8AoBcy7JrNtMlE9-0IuftdQzCYC8uaU62MCvbtU7X6M_JpYAwsM-XjAdl3TMHu1fJd8sMB8M1iMfQXcnGSOVDD9ijLGAlruettiETrDE-XSw_28L8-Bsz2bRt2PaclQvLr3VT5frd_PLAl3RP_yYFQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3gTOmfbV-xuHTyFhs-kGoeJqs4klYP9FTEtBh8AoBcy7JrNtMlE9-0IuftdQzCYC8uaU62MCvbtU7X6M_JpYAwsM-XjAdl3TMHu1fJd8sMB8M1iMfQXcnGSOVDD9ijLGAlruettiETrDE-XSw_28L8-Bsz2bRt2PaclQvLr3VT5frd_PLAl3RP_yYFQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"PESSIMISM IS FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS - 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance" </b>a beautiful new hard back edition, out now with Rough Trade Books</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">One of the very first publications to come off the Rough Trade Books press, 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' began life as thirteen pieces of courage and resistance from the pen of the one and only Salena Godden. These are poems written for the women’s march, poems that salute peaceful protest, poems on sexism and racism, class discrimination, poverty and homelessness, immigration and identity. This new edition expands the collection to full book length and shows Godden at her inimitable best—deft technique and powerful emotional heft, with additional new poems reflecting on our fast- changing world with her trademark humour and resilience. With a new foreword by John Higgs and an Old English translation by Emily Cotman this is a book full of light, courage and most of all hope. We all need some positivity right now and who better than Salena Godden to give it to us. Go check her out at one of these events or bookshops soon to get that injection of hope!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b>"MRS DEATH MISSES DEATH"</b> </span><span>Highly acclaimed award winning debut novel, out now in hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook with Canongate Books</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted by her job and now seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. </span><span style="text-align: left;">She meets Wolf, a troubled young writer, who – enthralled by her stories – begins to write Mrs Death’s memoirs. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced, their friendship flourishes. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her …</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span face="mrs-eaves, serif" style="font-size: 28px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span face="mrs-eaves, serif" style="font-size: 28px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span face="mrs-eaves, serif" style="font-size: 28px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">WINNER OF THE PEOPLES BOOK PRIZE</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="mrs-eaves, serif" style="font-size: 28px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS</span></span></div><span face="mrs-eaves, serif" style="font-size: 28px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE</span></div></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJbFb_WRDkngYnTB1m1RJln8ZhjiJDqeFTXOjqzEx-LNJkpLJGeKy4pxzdqW9CZFx5p1YJJNwj4smLrzQnmaOGCGMENn8DQAy90bfLHSV7-gOoOy81vZZWK76NgmVqviaaQdWUNa_Y7pBVPuuGFblQOSz6DWBKeaiKVclrJqTzp7TSlrntP8vZPDu0tw/s2956/IMG_4844.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2956" data-original-width="2956" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJbFb_WRDkngYnTB1m1RJln8ZhjiJDqeFTXOjqzEx-LNJkpLJGeKy4pxzdqW9CZFx5p1YJJNwj4smLrzQnmaOGCGMENn8DQAy90bfLHSV7-gOoOy81vZZWK76NgmVqviaaQdWUNa_Y7pBVPuuGFblQOSz6DWBKeaiKVclrJqTzp7TSlrntP8vZPDu0tw/w640-h640/IMG_4844.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>13-14 May: COLCHESTER,</b> <a href="https://firstsite.uk/event/big-women/" target="_blank">BIG WOMEN, First Site</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>25 May: EXETER,</b> <a href="https://bookbag.shop" target="_blank">Book Bag Bookshop</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>27 May: TOTNES,</b><a href="https://seachangepresents.co.uk/events/weekender-23" target="_blank"> Sea Change Festival</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>5 June: LONDON,</b> <a href="https://www.thesocial.com/events/" target="_blank">The Social with Scarlett Sabet</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><b>9 June: LONDON, </b><a href="https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2023/windrush-75/" target="_blank">Windrush 75, Royal Albert Hall</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">14 June: HASTINGS</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">, </span><a href=" https://www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/an-evening-with-henry-salena-and-patrice" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Hastings Book Festival</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">16 June: WENDOVER,</b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://realmagicbooks.com" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Real Magic Books </a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>23 June: BRIGHTON</b>, <a href="https://www.brightonbookfestival.co.uk" target="_blank">Brighton Book Festival</a> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>28 July: </b><a href="https://www.womad.co.uk" target="_blank">WOMAD</a>, Wiltshire</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>5 August: </b><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=gREEN+gATHERING&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" target="_blank">GREEN GATHERING</a>, Chepstow</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>28 August: </b><a href="https://www.shambalafestival.org" target="_blank">SHAMBALA</a>, Northamptonshire</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAiqfNZTDybe1rfrvgh1zn0rpz9oOyknGqBeRtoPeNCYV6d7tGbRkRSCDvntN2l0cmm-NC0kizZm1328B5JWo3MuhX7mBtCkGRQyRhcTg-sbIIAHdrRIWSkUpCUhotm5UXvMEdoj76uCw0e3OHa79QPkaBGpFoOgaE_WMAG9LjyFOLKNDLkYWSBZtpEg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAiqfNZTDybe1rfrvgh1zn0rpz9oOyknGqBeRtoPeNCYV6d7tGbRkRSCDvntN2l0cmm-NC0kizZm1328B5JWo3MuhX7mBtCkGRQyRhcTg-sbIIAHdrRIWSkUpCUhotm5UXvMEdoj76uCw0e3OHa79QPkaBGpFoOgaE_WMAG9LjyFOLKNDLkYWSBZtpEg=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">NEW poetry on my YouTube channel: </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Salena Godden shares poem <b>‘Courage is a Muscle</b>’ with Anita Rani on</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> BBC Radio 4 <b>Woman’s Hour</b>. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">This poem shared with love and solidarity. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">You can hear the rest of our wonderful conversation about books, poetry and the power of optimism at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kh0d" target="_blank"><b>BBC S</b></a></span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kh0d" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><span color="rgb(var(--ig-link))" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #351c75;"><br />13-14 May: COLCHESTER,</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75;"> </span><a href="https://firstsite.uk/event/big-women/" target="_blank">Big Women, First Site</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /></span><div><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><br /><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8WeUAobAN8KfKsA74a36pzx1JJG6Zldgjgoid2a7ZNwWXyrPtt4qZTfRpyBsqeedyc73PK-WxIVI24Y0KbHPl5_CGuFVlWcB755Cx5g3cQ550Mfq7owf0bss_22QTt2VNyMZ3llMnqrG9bup6yQkQ0Q6dxmhPCaiF8QKX3M76VLYtldY121bNbay6vw/s1080/IMG_5400.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8WeUAobAN8KfKsA74a36pzx1JJG6Zldgjgoid2a7ZNwWXyrPtt4qZTfRpyBsqeedyc73PK-WxIVI24Y0KbHPl5_CGuFVlWcB755Cx5g3cQ550Mfq7owf0bss_22QTt2VNyMZ3llMnqrG9bup6yQkQ0Q6dxmhPCaiF8QKX3M76VLYtldY121bNbay6vw/w640-h640/IMG_5400.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75;"><br />13-14 May: COLCHESTER,</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75;"> </span><a href="https://firstsite.uk/event/big-women/" target="_blank">Big Women, First Site</a><br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="caret-color: rgb(103, 78, 167);"><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXBrHIxYFk-fpnE9WGjsu3dBSGiX9XtIrkqVBXo9xUF9UU5V9NRTbz4IjCWGrV9Y7QWNZsUWZ7nKMsnWJeBs4CLZHNR5JuQZlk5DjOo3KzCvIt3nggn2AK69TPYUYN3hN0U3tQvXSgSNKgGybqB7TCIAO9yFlfps5dhYfNURSK5K-W_Jp60EahDYNCwQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="940" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXBrHIxYFk-fpnE9WGjsu3dBSGiX9XtIrkqVBXo9xUF9UU5V9NRTbz4IjCWGrV9Y7QWNZsUWZ7nKMsnWJeBs4CLZHNR5JuQZlk5DjOo3KzCvIt3nggn2AK69TPYUYN3hN0U3tQvXSgSNKgGybqB7TCIAO9yFlfps5dhYfNURSK5K-W_Jp60EahDYNCwQ=w640-h320" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75;"><br />25 May: EXETER,</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75;"> </span><a href="https://bookbag.shop" target="_blank">Book Bag Bookshop</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizErd0IvXPwShc4S-1Widi-p8pBYvbpU_ftXOQS0OohItmom6N3W35O2vb1mHFgtPrIqfTXQTc2dDLXSFu0zBoUomR8VQaqL-HkmI6lOIFB2NgqSf-QP9hgyJXr_9DAH0x4e-mByyT0DB0ziKr1JRi2kd62CCtKY2CSxUdY9qnCyJzbv4OlMqj46F-HA" style="font-family: georgia; 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color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">5 June: LONDON,</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://www.thesocial.com/events/" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">The Social with Scarlett Sabet</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhisBtr0aRjbaSgqVIB1QC26BpYycyc_lDwrEfAL9brAZmtfSB79TpltuQaisOVLqoo42UovFl6nwgxMxNN-nowE2PjY4sWM77sNxr-ay2ho010Eikk4kZ-oSGN0Hu1Vln2CseIvZ4QzzHTAyRn5-Gaz9FEKf07kAAX2BbT_ji8qLmjkVoLofNca-it6Q/s1080/347120400_264199456122395_324771615772183333_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhisBtr0aRjbaSgqVIB1QC26BpYycyc_lDwrEfAL9brAZmtfSB79TpltuQaisOVLqoo42UovFl6nwgxMxNN-nowE2PjY4sWM77sNxr-ay2ho010Eikk4kZ-oSGN0Hu1Vln2CseIvZ4QzzHTAyRn5-Gaz9FEKf07kAAX2BbT_ji8qLmjkVoLofNca-it6Q/w640-h640/347120400_264199456122395_324771615772183333_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><br />9 June: LONDON, </b><a href="https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2023/windrush-75/" style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Windrush 75, Royal Albert Hall</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEija3VkZ2tR3spR2Lc1CqlrZQp1pvGgpCn4E_8ZAQO4VojEYSPijAfa_K_aY8k66uT5DScepipv5gV3_3g5dQn0k0rP7avXBAEoDD7cPMI7TAfCVJQIQBrKvTeDkVTBir1Awpt8MZ5QXf-MQ8eBVDhWDcYwXz3e6jIVZhJv6txWyZLiWwoxe_ZnLq0ysA/s600/347790555_702453944972207_2802556696033822967_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEija3VkZ2tR3spR2Lc1CqlrZQp1pvGgpCn4E_8ZAQO4VojEYSPijAfa_K_aY8k66uT5DScepipv5gV3_3g5dQn0k0rP7avXBAEoDD7cPMI7TAfCVJQIQBrKvTeDkVTBir1Awpt8MZ5QXf-MQ8eBVDhWDcYwXz3e6jIVZhJv6txWyZLiWwoxe_ZnLq0ysA/w640-h640/347790555_702453944972207_2802556696033822967_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><br />9 June: LONDON, </b><a href="https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2023/windrush-75/" style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Windrush 75, Royal Albert Hall</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3NxrBaGPQy8cQUHyx1oDZ-uybPNxhQNvSqNMO3x-8ZpPOmu37mcSuOJmyEiY-qL5UqSSef7ctAn2a_BmU8EKgfHf284fmi_x9zsz2hEj06ELmCW1yx_P75UPweeCygoLNOXKSkaePAxCfdcC8dotZ6W8447hhBTH_aqeGKRqNhStb2eblU80RRXJ_w/s2000/image0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1414" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3NxrBaGPQy8cQUHyx1oDZ-uybPNxhQNvSqNMO3x-8ZpPOmu37mcSuOJmyEiY-qL5UqSSef7ctAn2a_BmU8EKgfHf284fmi_x9zsz2hEj06ELmCW1yx_P75UPweeCygoLNOXKSkaePAxCfdcC8dotZ6W8447hhBTH_aqeGKRqNhStb2eblU80RRXJ_w/w452-h640/image0.jpeg" width="452" /></a></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">14 June: HASTINGS</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">, </span><a href=" https://www.hastingsbookfest.org/events/an-evening-with-henry-salena-and-patrice" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Hastings Book Festival</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-s7_ZvAZytysQkinhJIJ2foYZKOaWTLgdq0KhuKwTr6TJrQ2ABWF58Jbse2DBXRB4YrrxUTCLnlUpPCp7RkV4hH3mJQU3e18llNz6Pr0eBsMfUTEv2f_kpqdVP7HWG1tWXXLG_hl9VpSJuFJ0yfc-k4RYmNn_jeZriFmWWLVdYVdL4xpDceq7RTYJQ/s680/FvYFYOtX0AMQzAr.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-s7_ZvAZytysQkinhJIJ2foYZKOaWTLgdq0KhuKwTr6TJrQ2ABWF58Jbse2DBXRB4YrrxUTCLnlUpPCp7RkV4hH3mJQU3e18llNz6Pr0eBsMfUTEv2f_kpqdVP7HWG1tWXXLG_hl9VpSJuFJ0yfc-k4RYmNn_jeZriFmWWLVdYVdL4xpDceq7RTYJQ/w640-h640/FvYFYOtX0AMQzAr.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><br />16 June: WENDOVER,</b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://realmagicbooks.com" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Real Magic Books </a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy5DRo7pqUVsdjUAhgAdZdDMx7cWeV8lhR1Zygqu-68GV2ZWSF8EVLHkPjG0AAt_S-uqVPLwAcIcsVeowQJX6BiTi132ZU6iKhW_RMQi2DEbvTdHDNxlmcP2YvabXd2annouDlmkGhHhEaj89wU0Bwzj_m9FrXuKknFkXU3gIA-fzDS6aw7I95FVLeQ/s1080/Poetry%20Cafe.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy5DRo7pqUVsdjUAhgAdZdDMx7cWeV8lhR1Zygqu-68GV2ZWSF8EVLHkPjG0AAt_S-uqVPLwAcIcsVeowQJX6BiTi132ZU6iKhW_RMQi2DEbvTdHDNxlmcP2YvabXd2annouDlmkGhHhEaj89wU0Bwzj_m9FrXuKknFkXU3gIA-fzDS6aw7I95FVLeQ/w640-h640/Poetry%20Cafe.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><br />23 June: BRIGHTON</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">, </span><a href="https://www.brightonbookfestival.co.uk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Brighton Book Festival</a><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6T5_qZSuFDufWhFMKif1YdpouXDtSjm331ri7AGlYV8oCkdNUVJUOCLtKCkkUV7LyLUujdo6cnzn-Gh2u2slXQBVxRa1IQHvtgghkLpysbZVGwScAfslEPb9a15QJc3qvhXABHAP-DSkqa-iPAuEr1YsxtceQeSHibO5IqyuMEJXfZdGQfH3WCW4Zw/s680/FuorXX4WwAkPbgW.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="567" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6T5_qZSuFDufWhFMKif1YdpouXDtSjm331ri7AGlYV8oCkdNUVJUOCLtKCkkUV7LyLUujdo6cnzn-Gh2u2slXQBVxRa1IQHvtgghkLpysbZVGwScAfslEPb9a15QJc3qvhXABHAP-DSkqa-iPAuEr1YsxtceQeSHibO5IqyuMEJXfZdGQfH3WCW4Zw/w534-h640/FuorXX4WwAkPbgW.png" width="534" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><br />28 July: </b><a href="https://www.womad.co.uk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">WOMAD</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">, Wiltshire</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbeSr4rtuR5WsUCNrBtZrY-xCgLhS46yft1niKJ5zUB9QaL0wsiLeqrDMlopn3cZXKbViFgczD0YtCjNOvzJQkDKrL49jPUGgeN9D8egAum4Aq0rfsLbPqkvk7XBaFb1P9ZGGuK4AHqmDa6PWgaPCCJApI3wvHQHfc1hEaF88AB7gDhBKg6lbeJ4dgXw/s5061/Digital%20line%20up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5061" data-original-width="3608" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbeSr4rtuR5WsUCNrBtZrY-xCgLhS46yft1niKJ5zUB9QaL0wsiLeqrDMlopn3cZXKbViFgczD0YtCjNOvzJQkDKrL49jPUGgeN9D8egAum4Aq0rfsLbPqkvk7XBaFb1P9ZGGuK4AHqmDa6PWgaPCCJApI3wvHQHfc1hEaF88AB7gDhBKg6lbeJ4dgXw/w456-h640/Digital%20line%20up.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">5 August: </b><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=gREEN+gATHERING&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">GREEN GATHERING</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;">, Chepstow</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCB920NIf7NsgtrkaE41LrjfZGMwQhfRfasxFteo7QuTAypyqThRNEDt4OYqeglDrdmiqAfxdLCRZKo-uTEUqLXbnwUpLFh0qME8PbwhqjEYp50NFD-IPRrtw_HipDjdduKgkz9jeqeBCx0MZ7PmSHyF769C0wA9V3GeTGSJuKEf3PXYWzEBYuC-XQGQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCB920NIf7NsgtrkaE41LrjfZGMwQhfRfasxFteo7QuTAypyqThRNEDt4OYqeglDrdmiqAfxdLCRZKo-uTEUqLXbnwUpLFh0qME8PbwhqjEYp50NFD-IPRrtw_HipDjdduKgkz9jeqeBCx0MZ7PmSHyF769C0wA9V3GeTGSJuKEf3PXYWzEBYuC-XQGQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ahh look, the summer 2023 yellow t-shirts have arrived, thank you for all the orders and photos so far. <a href="https://nymphsandthugs.bandcamp.com/merch/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-2023-t-shirt" target="_blank">Please visit Nymphs & Thugs</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to order yours. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">We've released a redesign of our iconic </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PessimismIsForLightweights?src=hashtag_click" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; white-space: inherit;">#PessimismIsForLightweights</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"> t-shirt, celebrating 5 years since its original release. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">here are some amazing N&T discount bundles available, LIVEwire vinyl & zines & tees...</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Serving suggestion: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Wear with a big smile, an open heart </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and all of your courage and resistance.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Click here: <a href="https://nymphsandthugs.bandcamp.com/merch/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-2023-t-shirt">https://nymphsandthugs.bandcamp.com</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(53, 28, 117); color: #351c75; font-family: georgia;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>
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color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Pessimism is for Lightweights</b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Signed poetry books and posters: </b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://roughtradebooks.com/collections/books/products/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-hardback-salena-godden" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;"><b>https://roughtradebooks.com</b></a></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p></div>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-73436503356561624292023-03-31T06:59:00.010-07:002023-04-11T03:08:07.013-07:00BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour with Anita Rani + Springtime 2023 highlights...<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOdu62FadysblLIYv9M_-NGDPPpwIKm3r8ll2cr6_88IHMHReC3pnwO7zwDFOus4ssBBExFyR9iK6ZnqZN5g9t7wz10RBpDnm2KjnjCYmeHzrv-S9MMNCxv5J3Y_oLnYYeL9408-ATNga7MPNXaMuXWiYcJho_x4C3Ph50i81d7Ct5ubmgjP597a8Q_g" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1170" height="635" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOdu62FadysblLIYv9M_-NGDPPpwIKm3r8ll2cr6_88IHMHReC3pnwO7zwDFOus4ssBBExFyR9iK6ZnqZN5g9t7wz10RBpDnm2KjnjCYmeHzrv-S9MMNCxv5J3Y_oLnYYeL9408-ATNga7MPNXaMuXWiYcJho_x4C3Ph50i81d7Ct5ubmgjP597a8Q_g=w640-h635" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kh0d" target="_blank">BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR</a> </b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/35v1z55z57c" width="320" youtube-src-id="35v1z55z57c"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hello my dears, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wow! This month has been so exciting and jam packed so I thought I should make a blog post and share some links and photos to say thank you and also so I don't forget.. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We kicked off the month with a special International Women's Day event and the launch of the new 2023 hardback edition of <b><a href="https://roughtradebooks.com/collections/books/products/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-hardback-salena-godden" target="_blank">Pessimism is for Lightweights</a></b> with my Rough Trade Books friends at Foyles flagship store on Charing Cross Road - it was such a joy to see my yellow books in the window and I signed a mountain of books too. Then we ended this big energetic month of March with a beautiful conversation about optimism and books and poetry on <b><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kh0d" target="_blank">BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour</a></b> with the always brilliant <b>Anita Rani</b>. My heart is full today! Thank you!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It's been a roller-coaster of a month, March has been cascading with lots of emotion and feelings, lots of travelling and book signings, visits to bookshops and podcasts and all sorts of adventures, whilst also keeping my new books simmering away and rising at 4am to complete the first draft of a new book to my agent. Deadline beaten. Mission accomplished. Woop! I can tell you about the new Canongate books later, but for now here's some of my March highlights and links and thanks to everyone who has been supporting this adventure and launch this month:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thank you to Rough Trade East and all other indie bookshops: Choose Bookshops!! Shout out to Viv at Newham Bookshop, Lee at Printed Matter Hastings and Charlie at The Hastings Bookshop, you'll find signed copies of my books there! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanks also to everyone who came to the <b><a href="https://chooselove.org" target="_blank">Choose Love</a></b> Syria and Turkey earthquake fundraiser hosted by Elif Shafak at Kings Place, such a magical and moving and emotional evening to be a small part of.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Thank you to my dear friend Kathryn Williams for inviting me onto her amazing </span><a href="https://www.beforethelightgoesout.com" target="_blank"><b>Before The Lights Goes Out</b> </a><span>podcast. Thank you also to </span><b><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0f3jnw3" target="_blank">Jumoke Fashola</a></b><span> for inviting me onto </span><b>BBC London</b><span> to read poetry and chat about my books. Thanks also to the team at Soho Radio and my co-hosts Amah Rose and Matt for another amazing </span><b><a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roaring20sradio" target="_blank">Roaring 20s Radio</a></b><span> show, it was so wonderful to feature the brilliant</span><a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roaring20sradio" target="_blank"> <b>Dark Horses</b></a><span> in the March show, LOVE Dark Horses. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Coming up next I'm off on a delightful adventure to France to perform and share both books and poetry at the <b><a href="http://www.ens-lyon.fr/en/event/research/salena-godden-reading-and-conversation" target="_blank">International Conference 'Consolation in Contemporary British and Post Colonial Literatures' at ENS in Lyon.</a> </b>There will be a reading and also a Q&A and book signing. Venue for this one has changed and it will now be at: </span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">MILC, </b><span class="ContentPasted3" style="background-color: white; display: inline; text-align: left;"><b>35 rue Raulin, 69007 Lyon</b>. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Then following that, my next London show is April 13th at<b><a href="https://bookslam.com" target="_blank"> Book Slam</a></b>, Hanbury Hall - a beautiful building famous for being a place where Charles Dickens used to do readings. I'm a BIG fan of Book Slam and so happy it's back, I am looking forward to sharing the stage with Diana Evans, Stephen Buoro, Cherise and Marsha Leanne! What a time it has been! What a month! I have been exactly like a Mad March Hare... </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Happy Easter! Happy Eggs and Rabbits to you all!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sharing pictures with so much gratitude, thanks and love, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Xxsg</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqFT9ZZd0UcaPXg8vts9g_Jnkp0Wxzg3a9RSewoJb_H2dqV6SuTHSnGYI8W_sO3tpcfpWVo-SD1nD-VhMbfbJLI-wjnwMGVdgyWjJk0knQ9P5Gez1wjqekMpcXXqf_S68PTzPsfhw7TxTFkzAEU5ZM_XrFQ1sSrNudPzPziH9N5zV8V56IKgRsEOZeQ/s4032/IMG_4388.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqFT9ZZd0UcaPXg8vts9g_Jnkp0Wxzg3a9RSewoJb_H2dqV6SuTHSnGYI8W_sO3tpcfpWVo-SD1nD-VhMbfbJLI-wjnwMGVdgyWjJk0knQ9P5Gez1wjqekMpcXXqf_S68PTzPsfhw7TxTFkzAEU5ZM_XrFQ1sSrNudPzPziH9N5zV8V56IKgRsEOZeQ/w300-h400/IMG_4388.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><b>Signed poetry books and posters: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://roughtradebooks.com/collections/books/products/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-hardback-salena-godden"><b>https://roughtradebooks.com</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Mrs Death Misses Death</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/14914-salena-godden/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>https://canongate.co.uk</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3JeZpdtzsLlo716VgkcPyCxtipPjFwLgtg4kIAOV65-T1OxVlhRSw6VRs-aUuSFgwM5RVrNNWf7eQn_SwWf3oarO4SRMhcFY8ZKSuo17YhBhKqgQfcSu7zAp36sf-9SB_IGW6WQcWlQ_sW29amGo5TcgAVjSPj0yBl035J5RukfqdNkOUuPKf9iHubg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3JeZpdtzsLlo716VgkcPyCxtipPjFwLgtg4kIAOV65-T1OxVlhRSw6VRs-aUuSFgwM5RVrNNWf7eQn_SwWf3oarO4SRMhcFY8ZKSuo17YhBhKqgQfcSu7zAp36sf-9SB_IGW6WQcWlQ_sW29amGo5TcgAVjSPj0yBl035J5RukfqdNkOUuPKf9iHubg=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-57451981813511666542023-03-13T04:06:00.004-07:002023-03-13T04:11:40.055-07:00March 22nd: Literature Beyond Borders: Choose Love Fundraiser hosted by Elif Shafak<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Elif Shafak</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); white-space: pre-wrap;"> hosts an evening </span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); white-space: pre-wrap;">of storytelling from an amazing line up of renowned authors to help people affected by the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey</span></span></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span></strong></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Literature Beyond Borders </span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hosted by Elif Shafak</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With guests:</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ben Okri </span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Caleb Azumah Nelson</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">David Baddiel</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">David Nicholls</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">David Mitchell </span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hasan Akkad</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Louise Doughty</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Monica Ali</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; 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text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The devastating earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria on the 6th February and again on 20th February have created a devastating humanitarian crisis like no other. Over 50,000 people have tragically lost their lives and millions have been displaced. </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All profits from this brilliant literary event will go to Choose Love’s emergency response work on the ground supporting the most vulnerable whose lives have been devastated by recent earthquakes. Please join us and please</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://donate.chooselove.org/campaigns/emergency-earthquake-appeal/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">donate</a><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: justify;">if you can.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2.6rem; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Delighted to add: There are tickets available for people who are not in a position to pay for tickets, funded by a generous benefactor. Email <a href="mailto:contact@choose.love" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">contact@choose.love</a> if you would like a complimentary ticket</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2.6rem; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2.6rem; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxTrg4dlNTyOo_AwYH-zaEoOO7UbBR84kQ0nCEWK3_TNgGWUCiEY6uvMMYyfouCVi1yQA1ZPClKoCFHOYlT9A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2.6rem; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://chooselove.org/"><b>https://chooselove.org</b></a></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2.6rem; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/literature-beyond-borders-choose-love-fundraiser-hosted-by-elif-shafak/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tickets: </span><span style="text-align: left;">https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/literature-beyond-borders-choose-love-fundraiser-hosted-by-elif-shafak/</span></b></a></span></p><br /></span><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2.6rem; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-25868530994420486532023-02-23T04:09:00.010-08:002023-03-01T05:29:05.013-08:00International Women's Day With Rough Trade Books And Friends At Foyles <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCCPggP2gn4Ffq_j3jBbP6kjeXmYqJ6ieHAhsY-w5fQDc3FrlJo8zT9P_oSmqxN73nfz2SGdETVljFhaq0tC_dQ2-11GNAmf5uKip_bXCSeFJTWZK6yqd2Sxy0L9-bWuyErrdbXbZT3fSQYDcYQp793Q0kWSmDhNa4cnv60y7bpYWXCiTfyrKiZLZcA/s500/orig.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbCCPggP2gn4Ffq_j3jBbP6kjeXmYqJ6ieHAhsY-w5fQDc3FrlJo8zT9P_oSmqxN73nfz2SGdETVljFhaq0tC_dQ2-11GNAmf5uKip_bXCSeFJTWZK6yqd2Sxy0L9-bWuyErrdbXbZT3fSQYDcYQp793Q0kWSmDhNa4cnv60y7bpYWXCiTfyrKiZLZcA/w640-h480/orig.gif" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz-VOid7SKOPVvQT4vj7uBqCA44VZN17-fY8EGwDS2M8adE-TZVjJtGo8MJUSTpGiSggzFQvEg0Hm700Bmo8Fm2F__sikZExypYm1A1sJGw_Q8LEy6m-l6NhbcplOTMq2ABshrV6KEVGPYffdhTb-CsbnF-zZ3goERp00eE4mYejdzus0QGLLgZuOjEQ/s2316/IMG_4088.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2316" data-original-width="2316" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz-VOid7SKOPVvQT4vj7uBqCA44VZN17-fY8EGwDS2M8adE-TZVjJtGo8MJUSTpGiSggzFQvEg0Hm700Bmo8Fm2F__sikZExypYm1A1sJGw_Q8LEy6m-l6NhbcplOTMq2ABshrV6KEVGPYffdhTb-CsbnF-zZ3goERp00eE4mYejdzus0QGLLgZuOjEQ/w640-h640/IMG_4088.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626;">Here comes the yellow my daffodillies,</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626;">I’m getting ready to do a real live show and hope to see some of you there. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><span style="color: #262626;">Excited to announce my first gig of 2023 is this: </span><a href="https://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.aspx?eventId=4304" target="_blank">International Women's Day, </a></span><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.aspx?eventId=4304" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; touch-action: manipulation;">Rough Trade Books</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> and friends, Wednesday March 8th, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; touch-action: manipulation;">Foyles</span>,<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> Charing Cross Rd. Soho, London</span></a> - </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: georgia;">We will launch the beautiful new hardback edition of 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #262626;">that night and I look forward to sharing the new work for the first time. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #262626;">Thrilled to be celebrating International Women's Day with my RTB friends and sharing the stage with the utter brilliance of: Sunnah Kahn, Sharan Hunjan, Ella Frears, Emma Warren and Anna Wood, here's the menu:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul style="font-size: 10px; margin: 6px 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><li style="font-size: 14px; margin: 3px 0px 3px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Poetry</strong> from Sharan Hunjan and Sunnah Khan, who feature in <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4 Brown Girls Who Write - </em>the work of a collective of radical, daring performance poets - alongisde Ella Frears, who'll be reading from her haunting and musical collection, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I Am The Mother Cat</em>. </span></span></li></ul><p style="color: #393939; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><ul style="font-size: 10px; margin: 6px 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><li style="font-size: 14px; margin: 3px 0px 3px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Conversation</strong> with Emma Warren and Anna Wood exploring the culture and history of modern dance. Emma Warren’s <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dance Your Way Home </em>is a social history of the dancefloor; Anna Wood’s debut collection of short stories, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yes Yes More More </em>is a whirlwind, surrealist tour of joy, pleasure, and pop music.</span></span></li></ul><p style="color: #393939; font-size: 14px; margin: 5px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><ul style="font-size: 10px; margin: 6px 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><li style="font-size: 14px; margin: 3px 0px 3px 15px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Salena Godden</strong> presents <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pessimism Is For Lightweights</em>, a work of resistance and protest through beautifully crafted and emotionally complex poetry. Facing sexism, racism, and identity in modern Britain, these are poems for our times.</span></span></li></ul></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.aspx?eventId=4304" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-84083276072856977192023-01-06T01:55:00.011-08:002023-02-23T04:11:02.405-08:00Happy New Year! New hardback edition of 'Pessimism is for Lightweights'<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Hello Yellow! </span></span></b><b><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Happy New Year! </span></span></b><b><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Happy Full Moon! </span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I'm delighted to kick off 2023 with the release of a very special hardcover edition of my 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' poems with Rough Trade Books. Here's 30 pieces of courage and resistance, here's some sunshine yellow to beat th</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75;">e winter blues, wishing you all the best this new year, health and happiness, peace and love, love, love, </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">sgxx</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEuJGvNh3YgIs4p9QWZ6l_2sHFhTr8HueBZcPj9MLkc3Z8BaZfkIYMZ6keKR1Fy0GjS5u3-zhszjWjUA8KIxQiMPoUNqwXWeSctz6H_1vMc7-01XReLCX8i8GUdi_QCXTEECTwkuxuuFYaVhAthyJdBJzPPa2ot7fmgeMcVitlE5n52G_hL18eFZ3QQ/s540/2yrDXI2_360x.png.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="360" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEuJGvNh3YgIs4p9QWZ6l_2sHFhTr8HueBZcPj9MLkc3Z8BaZfkIYMZ6keKR1Fy0GjS5u3-zhszjWjUA8KIxQiMPoUNqwXWeSctz6H_1vMc7-01XReLCX8i8GUdi_QCXTEECTwkuxuuFYaVhAthyJdBJzPPa2ot7fmgeMcVitlE5n52G_hL18eFZ3QQ/w427-h640/2yrDXI2_360x.png.webp" width="427" /></a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 96px;"><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span><b>"</b></span><span>One of the very first publications to come off the Rough Trade Books press, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pessimism is for Lightweights</em><span> began life as thirteen pieces of courage and resistance from the pen of the one and only </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Salena Godden</strong><span>. These are poems written for the women’s march, poems that salute peaceful protest, poems on sexism and racism, class discrimination, poverty and homelessness, immigration and identity. </span></span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 96px;">This new edition expands the collection to full book length and shows Godden at her inimitable best—deft technique and powerful emotional heft, with additional new poems reflecting on our fast-changing world with her trademark humour and resilience. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 96px;">With gorgeous artwork by <b>Craig Oldham</b>, a new foreword by </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: 96px;">John Higgs</strong><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 96px;"> and an Old English translation by </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-indent: 96px;">Emily Cotman</strong><span style="background-color: white; 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font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Excited to share some new seasonal author portraits by </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Chris Beschi </b></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: georgia; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #800180;">We had a great time shooting these, capturing that magic autumn light </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #800180; font-family: georgia; text-align: start;">and golden hour in my local park in east London. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #800180; font-family: georgia;">I'm such a huge fan of Chris's work, you can see more here...</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #800180; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"> </span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #800180; 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text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Ahhh my loves, and now suddenly it is November and the nights draw in and the light changes and as we approach the end of this year, I'm again preparing my annual hibernation. Like every year around this time, I now switch the microphone for a pen, the raucous festival beers for the soft whisper of turning pages. However it is very lovely to know that my last big gig of 2022 was participating in a wonderful show at Letters Live at The Royal Albert Hall ... Wow! What a gig that was and such a massive high to end this run with. It was a thrill and a honour to be a part of Letters Live and a dream to meet all the fellow readers and the Choose Love team. BIG LOVE to everyone who shared in that beautiful moment, amazing readings on both of the two glittering nights, all lead and hosted by the very lovely Benedict Cumberbatch, we had a myriad of epic readings from Kit Harrington, Himesh Patel, Jordan Stephens, Miriam Margoyles, Tony Robinson, Denise Gough, Clarke Peters, Louise Brealey and music from Max Richter, Celeste, Lisa from Ibeyi, plus Johnathan Pryce, Shelia Atim, Sue Perkins and Little Amal - too many to mention here, please have a look at the photos on the<a href="https://twitter.com/letterslive" target="_blank"> Letters Live twitter</a> I'll share a few below - it was a full house, jam packed to the rafters on both nights, all the tears and all the laughter and all the love, such raucous applause and standing ovations too. I know I am gushing here but I know I'm not alone in saying Letters Live at RAH was one helluva phenomenal and memorable experience. I know I will never forget it and was so very glad to take part and be there. Thank you. </span>Here's a handful of photos by Andy Paradise, Letters Live, Royal Albert Hall, November 2022: </div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75E_lMQY4gvqGD3Komrxwg97trLVMPa0SudEmdoWiKvSCWpKqxqBmTIgYXziQPJo9t4xmNVIaFrajauf0Af8A2MN4hmk6Oa3U8LLHhYugCsCa9x2wmJA29Z6w5J2gvzAjdx3YDN9poh-me9x-NQfSBGI7QG3vvaJpNEh9BjW-AsMU6UlwNzQp2j-TaQ/s8640/LL%20RAH%2027oct2022_ANDY%20PARADISE15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5760" data-original-width="8640" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75E_lMQY4gvqGD3Komrxwg97trLVMPa0SudEmdoWiKvSCWpKqxqBmTIgYXziQPJo9t4xmNVIaFrajauf0Af8A2MN4hmk6Oa3U8LLHhYugCsCa9x2wmJA29Z6w5J2gvzAjdx3YDN9poh-me9x-NQfSBGI7QG3vvaJpNEh9BjW-AsMU6UlwNzQp2j-TaQ/w400-h266/LL%20RAH%2027oct2022_ANDY%20PARADISE15.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I have three new books bubbling and cooking away: a new poetry collection, a memoir and a new novel which is another instalment for the <i>Mrs Death Misses Death</i> world series. And so I will return to my writing cave for winter, lots of tea and books, lots of reading and writing, creating new work and nurturing my wildest dreams. The pressure is real. I thank you for all of your kind comments, book reviews, messages and tweets and all your support in my writing adventures - I actually have no idea who reads this <i>Waiting For Godden</i> blog nowadays - but if you do happen to read this autumn 2022 post, hello and thank you. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">I'll leave you with some podcasts, radio and online events that are happening this month. I must say I'm sad to wave goodbye to <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dp1n" target="_blank">Podcast Radio Hour</a>. I have really enjoyed taking part in these BBC 4Extra shows, the final episode is this week and it will be fabulous. Later this month I'm so looking forward to joining the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dp1n" target="_blank">Lifting The Lid Festiva</a>l, an International Festival on Death and Dying and chatting with my Death Positive friends in California, Queer Death Stories. I'm also excited about DO:Death with the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/do-book-conversation-november-do-death-tickets-451694820367" target="_blank">Do Book Club</a> chatting with author and Death Doula Amanda Blainey. </span></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: georgia;">Lastly I've been asked to facilitate a poetry and prose masterclass, </span><a href="https://www.newwritingsouth.com/write-your-story-your-way-poetry-prose-masterclass-with-salena-godden/" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><span>'Write Your Story Your Way'</span></a><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: georgia;"> with New Writing South. Space is limited for these things, so sign up now! Click on the links! All of this is made from home, everything is online this month, and so it can be enjoyed from my desk to your desk, or my sofa to the comfort of your sofa... </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Keep on keeping on, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">BIGlovelovelove, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">sgxx </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Coming up...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">November 4 - </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dp1n" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" target="_blank">Podcast Radio Hour, BBC Radio 4 Extra</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #800180;">November 19 -</span><a href="https://anchor.fm/roaring20sradio" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" target="_blank"> Roaring 20's Radio, Soho Radio</a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #800180;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #800180;">November 20 - </span><a href="https://hopin.com/events/liftingthelid/registration" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" target="_blank">Lifting The Lid Festival of Death and Dying 2022</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: medium;">November 26 - <a href="https://www.newwritingsouth.com/write-your-story-your-way-poetry-prose-masterclass-with-salena-godden/" target="_blank">New Writing South: Masterclass with Salena Godden</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">November 30 - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/do-book-conversation-november-do-death-tickets-451694820367" target="_blank">DO Book Club</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; 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caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Read all about it - <a href="https://www.cunning-folk.com/about" target="_blank">Cunning Folk Magazine </a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.cunning-folk.com/about" target="_blank"> </a></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">3 new books on the way published by Canongate!! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">The literary childhood memoir <b>Springfield Road</b> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">A new full poetry collection, <b>With Love, Grief and Fury </b></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">The 2nd <b>Mrs Death Misses Death</b></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> world novel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I will post more about our plans for each book later...</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Right now I feel so grateful and happy to share this book news today. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">I'm so excited about this incredible opportunity. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">Dream come true! </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">Thank you to my publishers Canongate</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">& my amazing agent Crystal at OWN IT!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">🎉<b> <a href="https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/canongate-bags-three-more-from-godden" target="_blank">Announcement made at Frankfurt Book Fair via The Bookseller</a></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br /></span></span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3QHsrFCjcBKnZ1BxHdJAV1aImt7vcIVHJTYBVzJQtriyxCFGrUnFBcQS9gwRRHIzLl8qkw--z1oxxntNZd5n3F2s7UsiuVJZOLgQSOEm8deN39Kpjqgxz4EZMZcWTEBHn1QBHl76s3MefelBV-4pjBVYF5OAu6yY_2qASPxbxdXGnoJbsPEU11GlTQ/s1024/Mrs%20Death%20Misses%20Death%20-%20Twitter%20Cover%20Reveal.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3QHsrFCjcBKnZ1BxHdJAV1aImt7vcIVHJTYBVzJQtriyxCFGrUnFBcQS9gwRRHIzLl8qkw--z1oxxntNZd5n3F2s7UsiuVJZOLgQSOEm8deN39Kpjqgxz4EZMZcWTEBHn1QBHl76s3MefelBV-4pjBVYF5OAu6yY_2qASPxbxdXGnoJbsPEU11GlTQ/w640-h320/Mrs%20Death%20Misses%20Death%20-%20Twitter%20Cover%20Reveal.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-69080918952534528032022-09-12T02:17:00.015-07:002022-10-11T02:17:36.000-07:00Autumn dates and news...<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMr9lf_8FG2Vra9NuJAq4PfgtyVL9oK7SN1UV8qho9BA5QvONDjvBjeQsSOipCJnLMN--8iSb3WR7HcHXCsIiAZewYjeXwBfz70ON7hogE2_GJN25_zBEyXolmRVTebZ-yP8L_-O8APXt8Ej1DAx74H3SucYvNdPuRlTdc2CMDasLAtxa1oq8mG6sLjw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="680" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMr9lf_8FG2Vra9NuJAq4PfgtyVL9oK7SN1UV8qho9BA5QvONDjvBjeQsSOipCJnLMN--8iSb3WR7HcHXCsIiAZewYjeXwBfz70ON7hogE2_GJN25_zBEyXolmRVTebZ-yP8L_-O8APXt8Ej1DAx74H3SucYvNdPuRlTdc2CMDasLAtxa1oq8mG6sLjw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hello my dears, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How are you? I hope you are ok. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;">I hope you are finding some calm and kindness in all this chaos and turbulence. I hope you are finding time to <span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">take a</span> breath and to dream a little dream. Just a quick blog post this morning to share a handful of autumn delights, some lovely gigs and some links to some new work. I'm trying not to do much touring and performing this autumn and winter. I can feel myself getting ready to hibernate and feeling the need to write and hide away a bit. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> I have some really exciting announcements on the way, big things happening, but I cannot share any of that yet ... so I've been getting back into my routine, my 4am early starts, drinking tea, writing, watching the dark morning light, the September sun rising later and later as the weeks pass. Feeling the c</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">hanging weather, changing season, changing tides, changing world, changing energies. Feeling every thing shifting, changing, inevitably, irrevocably. Feeling all the feelings, feeling all the changes. </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Scroll down for some shows and new work, I hope to see you out and about...</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Take care of your big, bold and beautiful hearts,</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Sending love and </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #660000; font-family: georgia;">solidarity, </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">sgxx </span></span></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgznk_wMw-vrIgq4j1k1Wt8bvZfCGAviW3pH-u_nMMeL2_5OFxz_JxSjZUUzFZZOzER87xXpTLWB6Bmj3Q82VP3yvkqr4H0c4eQMwryTBjfh7C45bNKtGjJjNMmV7tjbgkdTzzCnGWvsMNAYEF7Bgd73OugtJ0vq9ewO9RjSU8IcGhwHOrZtbro42h15g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgznk_wMw-vrIgq4j1k1Wt8bvZfCGAviW3pH-u_nMMeL2_5OFxz_JxSjZUUzFZZOzER87xXpTLWB6Bmj3Q82VP3yvkqr4H0c4eQMwryTBjfh7C45bNKtGjJjNMmV7tjbgkdTzzCnGWvsMNAYEF7Bgd73OugtJ0vq9ewO9RjSU8IcGhwHOrZtbro42h15g=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><b><u>LIVE EVENTS </u></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><b>September 24 - <a href="https://www.walthamstowweekender.com" target="_blank">Walthamstow Weekender </a></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;">Performance with Amber Marks </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;">plus solo reading </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rose and Crown, Walthamstow, London</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>September 26 - <a href="https://www.thesocial.com/events/" target="_blank">'What Remains?' </a> </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;">Exciting book launch </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;">with Ru Callender & Bill </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); color: #660000; font-family: georgia;">Drummond</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Social, London </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><b>October 3 - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/under-the-covers-with-salena-godden-and-louisa-young-tickets-390391279827" target="_blank">Under The Covers </a></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">with Louisa Young & host Ella Berthoud </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">The House of St Barnabus, Soho, London</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><b>October 11 - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/verve-poetry-night-feat-salena-godden-open-mic-tickets-383408403857" target="_blank">Verve Poetry Night</a></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="event-info__description-items" style="caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79); letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia;">with Repeat Beat Poet, Elizabeth McGeown, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79); color: #660000; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: start;">Priyanka Joshi </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79); color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: start;">& host Sam J Grudgings, The Glee Club, Birmingham</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79); color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79); color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: start;"><b>October 15 </b>- <a href="http://linktr.ee/writersrebel" target="_blank"><b>Writers Rebel - Festival of Resistance </b></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(57, 54, 79); color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: start;">4pm, the Tate Modern, London</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitwVWPg6OZCtJBsh2hWpC_9ti1kJO9pash-iLLjJ-czljyNFWXGl_HRfrVNk_5Ckx4FvSH5SmnNnjnmsf1QSHwNi51gd-hzI_BmqHOxmzheMndemlGUo55P59br4SgPa8xqWcByPkNgryd7UlLXd_IWIcjRjqwT5Z-nzdLcq6vIqf58C359KfSjc49nQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitwVWPg6OZCtJBsh2hWpC_9ti1kJO9pash-iLLjJ-czljyNFWXGl_HRfrVNk_5Ckx4FvSH5SmnNnjnmsf1QSHwNi51gd-hzI_BmqHOxmzheMndemlGUo55P59br4SgPa8xqWcByPkNgryd7UlLXd_IWIcjRjqwT5Z-nzdLcq6vIqf58C359KfSjc49nQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><b><u>NEW! OUT NOW!</u></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Caught By The River Review: </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">'What Remains?' by Ru Callender</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em style="caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: 0.10000000149011612px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Published later this month by Chelsea Green, Ru Callender’s ‘What Remains? Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking’ is our Book of the Month for September. <strong>Salena Godden </strong>reviews, finding a great work of craft and beauty, humanity, heart and soul, which is both deeply loving and revolutionary in spirit."</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"><a href="https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2022/09/book-of-the-month-rupert-callender-what-remains/" target="_blank">Read all about it here: www.caughtbytheriver.net</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; 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word-wrap: break-word;">Artist </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); flex-direction: row; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lina Iris Viktor</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"> X Author Salena Godden</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; 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box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">with </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;">Laura Grimshaw and Salena Godden</span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #4c1130; 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Mrs Death tells her story in Salena Godden’s </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">intoxicating and life-affirming debut novel </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">published by Canongate Books ... </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; 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Huge congratulations to all other shortlisted authors and their stunning books. Fiction shortlist was phenomenal, so much respect for all authors and their beautiful books.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626;"><div style="text-align: justify;">BIGlove and thanks to all the indies that supported this book from the start. 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text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">July 13:</span><span style="color: #666666;"> </span><a href="https://www.newhamwordfestival.org/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Newham Book Festival with Hannah Lowe</a></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">July 21-24: <a href="https://www.taesup.co.uk/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tae Sup A'Fifer Tour, Scotland</a></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> Gruff Rhys, Salena Godden, Brìghde Chaimbeul, James Yorskston </span></i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">July 21: Byre Theatre, St Andrews <a href="https://byretheatre.com/shows/james-yorkstons-tae-sup-wi-a-fifer-3/" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tickets</span></a></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">July 22: Mareel, Shetland <a href="https://tickets.shetlandarts.org/sales/categories/music/tae-sup-wi-a-fifer/friday-22-july-2022-1930" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; 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caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); color: #666666; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">August 11: <a href="https://www.fervorfestival.com/whats-on/salena-godden" target="_blank">Fervour Festival, Elephant & Castle, London</a></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: start;"><p style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">August 14: <a href="https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Edinburgh International Book Festival</a></span></span></p><p style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">August 14: <a href="https://www.neureekie.scot/upcoming-events/onefortheroad" target="_blank">Neu Reekie, Edinburgh</a></span></p><p style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">OUT NOW: AUTHORS' MATTERS PODCAST</span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">"Being optimistic is a revolutionary act" </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; 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Speaking to award winning author </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/salenagodden" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; white-space: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">@salenagodden</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"> she tells </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/CaroSanderson" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; white-space: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">@CaroSanderson</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">how she got started in the DIY scene of the 1990s, rejecting the starving poet cliché, </span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the secret to her productivity. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Swapping poems for beer and cigarettes, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">Salena shares her extremely cool writing roots with us on Authors' Matters </span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; font-family: georgia; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">and doesn't disappoint!</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">
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text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">Fellow guest is author and illustrator Rob Biddulph</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">Following my recent RSL book signing with the Jean Rhys pen for </span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl notranslate _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/royalsocietyofliterature/" role="link" style="border: 0px; 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text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">The programme airs Tuesday 26 July at 1630 on BBC Radio 4 with a repeat on Friday 29 July at 2300. Also available on BBC Sounds, details on the BBC website: </span></span></span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019jyh" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); text-align: left;" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk</a></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0pNUNTUfy8Fd01N7sDq7b61yIZTOOso08IkNb9K7OeDnerh8a7XI-zceLjfMCgICpHypen0T_J098KSA0Ese4PvBJvOQ4j3NNez_1ABi8Mc6YTbJfogp-iZuU8C6aSQRKJ5eeT1zvM0P07vUy_ij6C5Ek5fBbAm0hxrtqvYXnGrX0g2CZRP_wRyU6w/s2262/IMG_1027.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2262" data-original-width="1170" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0pNUNTUfy8Fd01N7sDq7b61yIZTOOso08IkNb9K7OeDnerh8a7XI-zceLjfMCgICpHypen0T_J098KSA0Ese4PvBJvOQ4j3NNez_1ABi8Mc6YTbJfogp-iZuU8C6aSQRKJ5eeT1zvM0P07vUy_ij6C5Ek5fBbAm0hxrtqvYXnGrX0g2CZRP_wRyU6w/w332-h640/IMG_1027.jpg" width="332" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mrs Death tells her story in Salena Godden’s </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">intoxicating and life-affirming debut novel </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">published by Canongate Books </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, memoirist, essayist, poet and broadcaster of Jamaican heritage based in London. H</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">er highly acclaimed debut novel </span></span><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Mrs Death Misses Death </i>is </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">winner of The Indie Book Award for fiction and The Peoples Book Prize 2022, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, The Nibbies, British Book Awards Book Of The Year Fiction Debut, The Bad Form </span></span></span></strong><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Book Of The Year shortlist and a Guardian book of the year 2021</span></span></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: xx-large; text-align: start;"><a href="https://canongate.co.uk">https://canongate.co.uk</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwvHgt862Ife6RAODBw2Nqnpl8XCt40N4kf31x08XAabnmzgjZbbXXfThpJTyFnOQQE2kTTAURJU6DNm1ZcEVX7dWvx3naTJXwc-AqZ_t1NyIpquPkM08V9zAntZkV6HtlVXJXN9wGKwaRiU3KapnsC9NbY9cnkAiZoRjO1fMjDY2eNf7_KAbgYk-ng/s1080/GIF-TEMPLATE.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwvHgt862Ife6RAODBw2Nqnpl8XCt40N4kf31x08XAabnmzgjZbbXXfThpJTyFnOQQE2kTTAURJU6DNm1ZcEVX7dWvx3naTJXwc-AqZ_t1NyIpquPkM08V9zAntZkV6HtlVXJXN9wGKwaRiU3KapnsC9NbY9cnkAiZoRjO1fMjDY2eNf7_KAbgYk-ng/w640-h640/GIF-TEMPLATE.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><br /></div><p><br /><br /><br /></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-2995048806417447192022-06-02T02:47:00.010-07:002022-06-06T08:28:38.824-07:00Photo Story: A beautiful night at Journey to Nutopia, Salena Godden & Friends at The Cockpit Theatre<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvCJ_w22vOU0GK4JjU65tPYQYxGe04Qy4j3ZBhF9h3pJY0rv7s8a5v2eS2Uofg6N_4tf763RZOmiGvaklu9fhZQnRND-fyrlrl4ZEa34PgkLR-FcjiBY4OHsBKPRqHlOsVX_W82jAc281_gR0807lNhTkOu-1gK5K3Y7sTRiMhDzcdK_ZDMv0DplIrQ/s1750/IMG_3794.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1750" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvCJ_w22vOU0GK4JjU65tPYQYxGe04Qy4j3ZBhF9h3pJY0rv7s8a5v2eS2Uofg6N_4tf763RZOmiGvaklu9fhZQnRND-fyrlrl4ZEa34PgkLR-FcjiBY4OHsBKPRqHlOsVX_W82jAc281_gR0807lNhTkOu-1gK5K3Y7sTRiMhDzcdK_ZDMv0DplIrQ/w640-h512/IMG_3794.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: georgia; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hello! We had such a beautiful night at Journey to Nutopia, <i>An Evening with Salena Godden & Friends,</i> at The Cockpit Theatre this week. Thank you so much to all who came along to see us and support us. Thanks to Michelle Olly and The Cockpit & Journey To Nutopia team. Thanks to these mighty writers and poets with their profoundly beautiful and powerful work and generous spirit. These black and white photos just arrived, taken by <a href="https://www.behance.net/poetcurious" target="_blank">Chris Beschi</a>, so will share here on my blog in a photo story. Thank you so much my amazing friends <a href="http://www.outspokenldn.com/blog/2021/10/5/introducing-our-20223-publishing-programme" target="_blank">Oakley Flanagan</a>, <a href="https://www.rosarankingee.com" target="_blank">Rosa Rankin-Gee</a>, <a href="https://www.katfrancois.com" target="_blank">Kat Francois</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/OliSpleen?app=desktop" target="_blank">Oli Spleen</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/heidipearljames" target="_blank">Heidi James</a>. Make sure you seek them all out, follow their posts and tweets and buy all their books! Highly recommended! It was such a gorgeous event. I really enjoyed sharing Mrs Death Misses Death in the Cockpit Theatre. Loved every minute and love you! My heart is all full up. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you so much! Xx</span></div></span><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaGfelPFvVekDbo95YeIakgsPPdmhDTOTrQY025Er2LAJhJfSO5hYnGGerdfA6DAl7fZeoOrScpmPZNS11B3gJrObAp3jndG0cLv9cM2SfBLrVNSZ4eS92Njf4LIaK2WZgB64Pe1MMcnYexw7tIxP9zMriJxHnnMmPCsrt7StGY76ANUkk6X4FwoSLQg/s1750/IMG_3793.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1750" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaGfelPFvVekDbo95YeIakgsPPdmhDTOTrQY025Er2LAJhJfSO5hYnGGerdfA6DAl7fZeoOrScpmPZNS11B3gJrObAp3jndG0cLv9cM2SfBLrVNSZ4eS92Njf4LIaK2WZgB64Pe1MMcnYexw7tIxP9zMriJxHnnMmPCsrt7StGY76ANUkk6X4FwoSLQg/w640-h458/IMG_3793.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">She won The Saboteur Award for her novella, The Mesmerist’s Daughter and was a finalist in The Cinnamon Poetry Collection Prize. Her short stories, poetry and essays have been published various anthologies including, We’ll Never Have Paris, Somesuch, Dazed and Confused and Galley Beggar Press. </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">She hosts a podcast, First Graft, where she discusses the writing process with other writers. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; text-align: left;">Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/heidipearljames" target="_blank">@heidipearljames</a> & </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; text-align: left;">Insta <a href="https://www.instagram.com/heidipearljames/" target="_blank">@heidipearljames</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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The resulting novel “Depravikazi” was published in 2003 by Running Water Publications. At the Brighton launch of the book his first band “The Flesh Happening” was formed. In 2009 he formed the band “Pink Narcissus” and in 2013 released a solo album “Fag Machine” which spawned the eponymous weekly club-night showcasing live original LGBT+ music in Brighton. In 2017 he formed his third band “Spleen” and in 2019 he released his second solo studio album “Gaslight Illuminations”. April 1st 2022 saw the launch of Spleen’s fifth studio album “Still Life”, an album about life in the shadow of and in spite of death. Its themes encompass nature, the environment, mortality, grief, life, death, mass extinction of species, displaced people and the general human experience of existence in the 2020’s.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; text-align: left;">Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/olispleen" target="_blank">@olispleen</a> & </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; text-align: left;">Insta <a href="https://www.instagram.com/olispleen/" target="_blank">@olispleen</a></span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguY1d9zM2_2cS1ZNJ_GxQS1ENWeyi5I3mzYrhrytMfaRUXpAKkPKcPHCL4QSRZbtMkBTzEXb1Z3UNsl3UeQHDZLJeNGx4whPO2ujWt5k4iEvAYV_YjUSmTD-94_axWRH6_2qE3jGEcXwsVeSAn-re4cDcHWGwtKTxiRYlUaF1ZLXlb7lsjUQqAy1WeEA/s1750/IMG_3709.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguY1d9zM2_2cS1ZNJ_GxQS1ENWeyi5I3mzYrhrytMfaRUXpAKkPKcPHCL4QSRZbtMkBTzEXb1Z3UNsl3UeQHDZLJeNGx4whPO2ujWt5k4iEvAYV_YjUSmTD-94_axWRH6_2qE3jGEcXwsVeSAn-re4cDcHWGwtKTxiRYlUaF1ZLXlb7lsjUQqAy1WeEA/w512-h640/IMG_3709.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZl3f93Je_7e1ucjmTXRrxOhSJgAM5QYftpOiAOSMR0ae-z7jlqdctOsrXy4-mda_ruaRIwKp2HGUQLDNUPFak-axlJs0CP4CS91_GOTH9Yp7B_b2JVaeAV5TtDZ--wI_BzlIO8LmEj63WZ7_Amc_9ndIgHoV6v6HCRNYCKSXuQiXbNyVFGUa4o7TFg/s1750/IMG_3705.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1750" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZl3f93Je_7e1ucjmTXRrxOhSJgAM5QYftpOiAOSMR0ae-z7jlqdctOsrXy4-mda_ruaRIwKp2HGUQLDNUPFak-axlJs0CP4CS91_GOTH9Yp7B_b2JVaeAV5TtDZ--wI_BzlIO8LmEj63WZ7_Amc_9ndIgHoV6v6HCRNYCKSXuQiXbNyVFGUa4o7TFg/w640-h512/IMG_3705.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3Rv5JI-pimneqWMVB5RhhOeyvppD0mfi2LXDqTZBgXBg4E6lZOSTLojYbLgk6psHlySZu_VhLJaFdGGGQo8k9qMNUEXJ_H-SFPt0RoyBgMsWpLaPXfUvlcLEYQDNpRvR3a3bBelo4Cbwojd4K3mmJR-odm7Ve_xQRHtnVWwDJfUpi9tdpkfpOatQSg/s1750/IMG_3703.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1750" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3Rv5JI-pimneqWMVB5RhhOeyvppD0mfi2LXDqTZBgXBg4E6lZOSTLojYbLgk6psHlySZu_VhLJaFdGGGQo8k9qMNUEXJ_H-SFPt0RoyBgMsWpLaPXfUvlcLEYQDNpRvR3a3bBelo4Cbwojd4K3mmJR-odm7Ve_xQRHtnVWwDJfUpi9tdpkfpOatQSg/w640-h512/IMG_3703.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://thecockpit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=520e6823209f7c023ab50fc1c&id=8f86735bff&e=fe126ef497" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Kat François</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060;"> is an Educator, Poetry & Drama Performance Artist and Teacher, Playwright, Life Coach and Fitness Instructor. BBC TV and World Slam Champion. She has written and performed acclaimed shows includingRaising Lazarus, dealing with the experiences of Caribbean soldiers in WW1. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060; font-family: georgia;">Kat has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Saturday Live and Woman’s Hour, Radio 5 Live, Sky and BBC television. 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As a playwright: ‘This Queer House’, VAULT Festival, directed by Masha Kevinovna, produced by OPIA Collective. Their poetry appears in bath magg, Poetry London, Under the Radar and Wasafiri, as well as anthologised work for 3 of Cups Press, Hachette UK, Trapeze and Verve Poetry Press. They are a member of The London Library Emerging Writer Programme and an alum of Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Their pamphlet is forthcoming with Out-Spoken Press </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: #606060;">2022–3 Publishing Programme from Out-Spoken Press available </span><a href="https://thecockpit.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=520e6823209f7c023ab50fc1c&id=8f964299c1&e=fe126ef497" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk2gg56FzmJnQJ7s5TTwEWpB7QsXvmiIQUZSIazI-FyiUUPx8ESAx-3641jonIutS60e8jmb1OW1hnqKnic_OoAI83VZIjVsoFDJcXFlQXjkVGXSREsD1AhkrKEO1PDBwg37nlTw88fDEWeu3s3wJhOvC-HfYmr3dYLMUG8J6vuixJS0rcal-9ENDKZQ/s1750/IMG_3653.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk2gg56FzmJnQJ7s5TTwEWpB7QsXvmiIQUZSIazI-FyiUUPx8ESAx-3641jonIutS60e8jmb1OW1hnqKnic_OoAI83VZIjVsoFDJcXFlQXjkVGXSREsD1AhkrKEO1PDBwg37nlTw88fDEWeu3s3wJhOvC-HfYmr3dYLMUG8J6vuixJS0rcal-9ENDKZQ/w512-h640/IMG_3653.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Mrs Death Misses Death </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>summer book tour 2022 </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June 9: <a href="https://dice.fm/event/3ekop-hammer-and-tongue-hackney-9th-jun-the-book-club-london-tickets?lng=en" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hammer & Tongue, Book Club, Old Street</a></span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June 14: <a href="https://www.crossingthetees.org/whats_on/mrs-death-misses-death-with-salena-godden/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Crossing The Tees Festival , Stockton</a></span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June 18:<a href="https://firstlightlowestoft.com/whats-on/salena-godden/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> First Light Festival, Lowestoft</a></span></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June 30: <a href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/out-spoken-june" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Outspoken, Southbank</a></span></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">July 9: <a href="https://www.also-festival.com/events/poet-but-not-as-you-know-it-/feed" style="color: #4d469c; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">U</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">R </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">2 </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">0</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">2</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">2</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">May 31: <a href="https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/journeytonutopia" target="_blank">Journey To Nutopia, Cockpit Theatre </a></span></span></span></span></p><div><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>June 3: <a href="https://stokenewingtonlitfest.eventcube.io/events/40308/gala-night" target="_blank">Stoke Newington Literary </a></span><span><a href="https://stokenewingtonlitfest.eventcube.io/events/40308/gala-night" target="_blank">Festival</a></span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June 9: <a href="https://dice.fm/event/3ekop-hammer-and-tongue-hackney-9th-jun-the-book-club-london-tickets?lng=en" target="_blank">Hammer & Tongue, Book Club, Old Street</a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June 14: <a href="https://www.crossingthetees.org/whats_on/mrs-death-misses-death-with-salena-godden/" target="_blank">Crossing The Tees Festival , Stockton</a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June 18:<a href="https://firstlightlowestoft.com/whats-on/salena-godden/" target="_blank"> First Light Festival, Lowestoft</a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">June 30: <a href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/out-spoken-june" target="_blank">Outspoken, Southbank</a></span></span></span></p><div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">July 9: <a href="https://www.also-festival.com/events/poet-but-not-as-you-know-it-/feed" target="_blank">Also Festival, Warwick</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">July 13: <a href="https://www.newhamwordfestival.org" target="_blank">Newham Book Festival with Hannah Lowe</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">July 21-24: <a href="https://www.taesup.co.uk" target="_blank">Tae Sup A'Fifer Tour, Scotland</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span> </span>Gruff Rhys, Salena Godden, Brìghde Chaimbeul, James Yorskston </i></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">July 21: Byre Theatre, St Andrews <a href="https://byretheatre.com/shows/james-yorkstons-tae-sup-wi-a-fifer-3/" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tickets</span></a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">July 22: Mareel, Shetland <a href="https://tickets.shetlandarts.org/sales/categories/music/tae-sup-wi-a-fifer/friday-22-july-2022-1930" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tickets</span></a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">July 23: Eden Court, Inverness <a href="https://eden-court.co.uk/event/tae-sup-wi-a-fifer-on-tour-2" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tickets</span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(31, 34, 71); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">July 24: Eastgate, Peebles <a href="https://eastgatearts.online.red61.co.uk/event/5013:2432/" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-shadow: rgb(8, 9, 23) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tickets</span></a></span></p><div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">August 12: <a href="https://thelittlebigfestival.co.uk" target="_blank">Big Little Festival, Devon</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">August 14: <a href="https://www.edbookfest.co.uk" target="_blank">Edinburgh International Book Festival</a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">More dates to be announced ... Watch this page!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Coming up next, </span>May 31, <a href="https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/journeytonutopia" target="_blank">JOURNEY TO NUTOPIA</a></span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih1AxNWcy9XpqKNbDUD1CRaVbGZVrr6Ec0mxScUbZ6wVX9jUuhfnR_IrUyGtdNGLBH32nAhwYVX9XbEWpIinIwojpAKdLwd8RUxBlp5-00QJzR1rTOFE5XFFDNMCYgNKHPYzfGcEWLUgy18hnay5nSLwZAtWNWMs_Rco5CYCEQ_6EE5IS_XGTELQ0UmA/s1170/IMG_9147.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="1170" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih1AxNWcy9XpqKNbDUD1CRaVbGZVrr6Ec0mxScUbZ6wVX9jUuhfnR_IrUyGtdNGLBH32nAhwYVX9XbEWpIinIwojpAKdLwd8RUxBlp5-00QJzR1rTOFE5XFFDNMCYgNKHPYzfGcEWLUgy18hnay5nSLwZAtWNWMs_Rco5CYCEQ_6EE5IS_XGTELQ0UmA/w640-h636/IMG_9147.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">May 31: </span><a href="https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/journeytonutopia" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Journey To Nutopia, Cockpit Theatre </a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzT-chimrQCaoYB2olyUCyjHNwAUMkhMsyDTvovqxAhvYXF7ecFyLS7_r-4xMFUUggHNibEPBV3k7_SG1_FIzXBNw-gBBM1XNKc3TAcJ530XwExjFLHtg11jc3Vuuzqf2F9TUOlmpXFsHOH2wm8_wBjazXu9O98ipXFzh7zpJay4wP4Xz3aUs7La_sQA/s680/FS4nMwWWQAEQpz9.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzT-chimrQCaoYB2olyUCyjHNwAUMkhMsyDTvovqxAhvYXF7ecFyLS7_r-4xMFUUggHNibEPBV3k7_SG1_FIzXBNw-gBBM1XNKc3TAcJ530XwExjFLHtg11jc3Vuuzqf2F9TUOlmpXFsHOH2wm8_wBjazXu9O98ipXFzh7zpJay4wP4Xz3aUs7La_sQA/w640-h640/FS4nMwWWQAEQpz9.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">June 14: </span><a href="https://www.crossingthetees.org/whats_on/mrs-death-misses-death-with-salena-godden/" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Crossing The Tees Festival , Stockton</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQGfXCIO6-E06yuQPvpT_IrF_mkA9GJeaKRElzGQCN5DBkFumf7fcKs_Krkc-pTvzeHkHum863KVSV6VXfPkHekAwKfB09MDkouWwamFO5wJYT8l2zIOuZ8xllFlqlMifANmPKCsT2HT7bpNk0TZGDFPOcParKeXrg4SRI9ZNWUlEsewpqjb-4e7l7NA/s512/IMG_3211%20copy.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="496" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQGfXCIO6-E06yuQPvpT_IrF_mkA9GJeaKRElzGQCN5DBkFumf7fcKs_Krkc-pTvzeHkHum863KVSV6VXfPkHekAwKfB09MDkouWwamFO5wJYT8l2zIOuZ8xllFlqlMifANmPKCsT2HT7bpNk0TZGDFPOcParKeXrg4SRI9ZNWUlEsewpqjb-4e7l7NA/s320/IMG_3211%20copy.jpeg" width="310" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span><p></p></div></div></div>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-50809772299406036892022-05-13T05:54:00.008-07:002022-05-13T06:46:55.186-07:00Exciting News: 'Mrs Death Misses Death' shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2022<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUvXMCCbj_7DkfWRCo0fRdkQgrrcwHJufWh14vf1C1B09I9yJ9LcPSCKsqEBYDcwTNXzeuyY14WDn6rYD4lBCuSmjlPu44yIoY9hLaLNtrzZi57SOKcNx2g-OUgg5Nvua60C3prrM0euotFoVJLvjj0D1ys2gDyXCTtJ5qEZXSrF7dhkn7WG8q575JEw/s1080/2022_IBA_Singles_Insta_v02.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUvXMCCbj_7DkfWRCo0fRdkQgrrcwHJufWh14vf1C1B09I9yJ9LcPSCKsqEBYDcwTNXzeuyY14WDn6rYD4lBCuSmjlPu44yIoY9hLaLNtrzZi57SOKcNx2g-OUgg5Nvua60C3prrM0euotFoVJLvjj0D1ys2gDyXCTtJ5qEZXSrF7dhkn7WG8q575JEw/w640-h640/2022_IBA_Singles_Insta_v02.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">EXCITING NEWS! </span> </b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So excited today to discover that ‘Mrs Death Misses Death’ is shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">This magnificent list is voted for by independent booksellers. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you to booksellers and beautiful bookshops. C</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: georgia; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">ongratulations to all other authors, look, what a beautiful list! Love this!</span></span></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>• Still Life by Sarah Winman</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>• Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>• The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you to Books Are My Bag + Canongate + OWN IT! + and everyone who read and shared all of these books and supported local and independent bookshops! Choose Bookshops!</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://booksaremybag.com/IndieBookAwards/Shortlist?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=iba" target="_blank">Read all about it here: booksaremybag.com</a></span></b></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Such stunning news. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Thank you!</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505;"><br /></div></div><p></p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKaf66vokz4iwqmWQnnE5YhFZBLeHTdBCrYI_j6sI_dDRJVjlcwgFXWtWJcrtbyFrxjp1ol0GFhQe46UjvTYgkqY26xnGCnUfv6wrfI0GCjRHnTNKlEWymG1kZhTduWuR-eODIzG8F4UaIU36V2Yv2f0z6sVa46irMrgTCL5g1Vdb3XofU4d48xZ7GJA/s1170/44A534DE-D004-4A3F-95F7-F032DB027103.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1170" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKaf66vokz4iwqmWQnnE5YhFZBLeHTdBCrYI_j6sI_dDRJVjlcwgFXWtWJcrtbyFrxjp1ol0GFhQe46UjvTYgkqY26xnGCnUfv6wrfI0GCjRHnTNKlEWymG1kZhTduWuR-eODIzG8F4UaIU36V2Yv2f0z6sVa46irMrgTCL5g1Vdb3XofU4d48xZ7GJA/w640-h640/44A534DE-D004-4A3F-95F7-F032DB027103.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">• </b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Afrori Supper Club</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia;">Tuesday May 17th </span></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: georgia; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">• </b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Live reading & book signing</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://afroribooks.co.uk" target="_blank">Tickets: </a><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://afroribooks.co.uk" target="_blank">afroribooks.co.uk</a></span></b></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 13px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #bf9000; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/mrs-death-misses-death/salena-godden//9781838851224?awaid=3787&utm_source=redbrain&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=css&gclid=CjwKCAiAlfqOBhAeEiwAYi43F6uAo02vCH8sI5sJMtBEzy9AZ0ZCXKh4lJbuhTzePYFuWmf0xu4uQRoCS-UQAvD_BwE" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Waterstones</a> | </b></span></span></span><span style="color: #bf9000; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/mrs-death-misses-death-main/salena-godden/paperback/9781838851224.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAlfqOBhAeEiwAYi43FyfbWeQvuzpL_2zC8fS6YGZ2CqaasKzsU2bQCIy69jIz70TO1Wu5-RoCm0AQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds" style="color: #4d469c; 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color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">Support i</span>ndie bookshops<span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"> via </span><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/books/mrs-death-misses-death/9781838851224?gclid=CjwKCAiAlfqOBhAeEiwAYi43F0c4ju6MtmwtohRewCKU5Z7nBgwWAygm9dBPA1ov_77vSIlWEbID9RoCvQoQAvD_BwE" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.bookshop.org</a></b></span></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="text-align: start;" /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVKY5ICriPRveYrtjN00Ospc5gAFV528RPM3r9TcbD-8V4UUva1c-TCHygODljt6Uus25A-5_sHfLTIlSNaGI00IcVp-IMin7yGFy1NMV4YWOBwiL5bfzbEDoyxZ_L_kXLItFBl4dsB02J4gkie2FqR82sKfa9I5rozefnXjkfm9WAaaQvPhVKGJ5R8g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="550" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVKY5ICriPRveYrtjN00Ospc5gAFV528RPM3r9TcbD-8V4UUva1c-TCHygODljt6Uus25A-5_sHfLTIlSNaGI00IcVp-IMin7yGFy1NMV4YWOBwiL5bfzbEDoyxZ_L_kXLItFBl4dsB02J4gkie2FqR82sKfa9I5rozefnXjkfm9WAaaQvPhVKGJ5R8g" width="300" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-18230344489839756592022-05-09T06:50:00.015-07:002022-07-20T03:35:57.230-07:00'Mrs Death Misses Death' wins People's Book Prize for Fiction<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGiGsnOXMQNsmOI1ginAUuoN7a46cFbBJ_fKtE9nj5hbuVn9E0rgCeUXUzlrujeVRnm5J0U-m13ShD--StgF8o7MDhN6iOE0WHC5d82ck3BPTVwqYCByDPnY4-dUwlmJo9D_EROZlghTxAAfLIe7s0kZ5tL_ZGZP08tpevJPTk3rHZ1tLwMOdNqc73oQ" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">Hello!! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'm very excited to announce that ... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mrs Death Misses Death has won the Peoples Book Prize for Fiction!! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you to everyone who took time to vote and share. Thank you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It means so much as this is a prize voted for by you, by readers and book lovers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanks to my publishers Canongate and agents OWN IT! Thank you so much.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Congratulations to all finalists, all authors and their beautiful books too. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You can read all about it here: <a href="https://peoplesbookprize.com">https://peoplesbookprize.com</a></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have these 3 amazing events coming up in May, </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">See you here and there! 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</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>May 12:</b> New Writing North Book Club </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/NewWritingNorth" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; white-space: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">@NewWritingNorth</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>May 16/17:</b> Afrori Books, Brighton </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/AfroriBooks" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; white-space: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">@AfroriBooks</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">May 31:</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, London</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/cockpittheatre" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; white-space: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">@cockpittheatre</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">
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font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify; white-space: normal;">shortlist: <b>British Book Awards, </b></span><b style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Book of the Year Fiction: Debut </b><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;"> </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: medium; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify; white-space: normal;">shortlist:<b> The </b></span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: justify;">Gordon Burn Prize</b><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Mrs Death Misses Death shortlisted in the British Book Awards!<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGqH_fXLRchL3CkWcfMzoHiGBdYzUmm8HH7h4p03_eZr3ZCIDFdOEyCV4NKGwhP9_5QSNLPL99yEPllvjUB34uixUySsudJhMkDMh3WHKIav_945YCmF4l5K14IW6t4DxdZOtZCYo0oefWFtGCql5d2_df2JDPkNsQB6lhMphNuYtrPEHl3Bl6ihcs3w" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGqH_fXLRchL3CkWcfMzoHiGBdYzUmm8HH7h4p03_eZr3ZCIDFdOEyCV4NKGwhP9_5QSNLPL99yEPllvjUB34uixUySsudJhMkDMh3WHKIav_945YCmF4l5K14IW6t4DxdZOtZCYo0oefWFtGCql5d2_df2JDPkNsQB6lhMphNuYtrPEHl3Bl6ihcs3w=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden - shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2022</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGqH_fXLRchL3CkWcfMzoHiGBdYzUmm8HH7h4p03_eZr3ZCIDFdOEyCV4NKGwhP9_5QSNLPL99yEPllvjUB34uixUySsudJhMkDMh3WHKIav_945YCmF4l5K14IW6t4DxdZOtZCYo0oefWFtGCql5d2_df2JDPkNsQB6lhMphNuYtrPEHl3Bl6ihcs3w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /></div><br /></div><br /><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmjEMk2iqP8mCNeK-zrWquRigmGfhTEUC6Ud4gnueox2oJZVKmUsy7InlY1dp2GHDU8QRCkyCi-TybFKX8MSI0eaZO5aZV_m1mF732jb4q3KJsJ_eonxeLqKPR47rcqLKAKYbIyLzbcmOJFNY6SxA45U_Z9uMJgrZruLEJFKdPwU6aK7Xf7-sDYFku0Q" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #050505; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Delighted to hear ‘Mrs Death Misses Death’ has been shortlisted for <b>Book of the Year Fiction: Debut </b></span></span></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Congratulations to my fellow debut authors, Natasha Brown, Bella Mackie, Raven Leilani, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Shelley Parker-Chan - love your work and so honoured to be in your excellent company. </span></span></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But that's not all ... </span></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Congratulations to my brilliant publishers, big thanks</span> and love to team Canongate Books </span><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">who have been shortlisted for many categories including: <b>Indie publisher of the year + Publisher of the year + Designer of the year + Rights Professional of the year + The British Book Award for Export</b></span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;">What a dream! 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color: #050505; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #050505;"><br /></span><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505;"><br /></div></div>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-57690412972898483462022-03-18T07:25:00.017-07:002022-03-18T09:51:28.334-07:00NEW portraits by Chris Beshi + NEW BBC Podcast Radio Hour <p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQq-w8G4q1b8BfzV-ZJl73xqbreTCMDThahLMV8Z9Xrb27Mk6SCw_LxG6keHa47nUT82m91x_1bxsgdiUvVvJGP-eZ4q3kU5R7O-lSpitvQTeFX7FuvKsPxgOSu7MFGJQYQYy0W_OnEpTqPzyl0z0plNYwxrkc2RZo5yEAtZqRPKYf6RvBwPe8CjY7_g=s4655" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4655" data-original-width="3724" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQq-w8G4q1b8BfzV-ZJl73xqbreTCMDThahLMV8Z9Xrb27Mk6SCw_LxG6keHa47nUT82m91x_1bxsgdiUvVvJGP-eZ4q3kU5R7O-lSpitvQTeFX7FuvKsPxgOSu7MFGJQYQYy0W_OnEpTqPzyl0z0plNYwxrkc2RZo5yEAtZqRPKYf6RvBwPe8CjY7_g=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Salena Godden by Chris Beshi, March 2022</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: georgia;">Hello there, hope you are ok and</span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: georgia;"> happy to see spring springing! </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Excited to share six new images by <b>Chris Beshi</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We had so much fun shooting these new portraits. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you Chris!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am such a huge fan of Chris's work, you can see more here...</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: left;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.behance.net/poetcurious" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">https://www.behance.net/poetcurious</a><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #4c1130;">I have been having amazing adventures </span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;">sharing</span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> the book with podcasts and radio shows, </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">with lovely bookshops and libraries, </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">and with festivals and friends. </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">Thank you so much to everyone supporting this journey so far - </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">I had such an incredible time doing </span><b style="color: #4c1130;">Tubthumping</b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> in Leeds, a new show produced and hosted by <b>Matt Abbott </b>and <b>Maria Ferguson </b>Thank you! Thanks also to </span><b style="color: #4c1130;">Journey to Nutopia </b><span style="color: #4c1130;">at the</span><b style="color: #4c1130;"> Deliaphonic Festival</b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> in Coventry Cathedral and </span><b style="color: #4c1130;">Karachi Literature Festival, Pakistan</b><span style="color: #4c1130;">. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Busy times; we've been in Dakota, USA with Tom Brosseau and</span><b style="color: #4c1130;"> <a href="https://news.prairiepublic.org/show/the-great-american-folk-show" target="_blank">The Great American Folk Show</a></b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> and recording</span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> podcasts </span><b style="color: #4c1130;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150" target="_blank">Across The Pond</a></b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> and </span><b style="color: #4c1130;"><a href="http://www.yg2d.com/thepodcast" target="_blank">You're Gonna Die</a></b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> in California. When I returned to London, I was honoured to be asked to do a poetry performance for the mighty <b>Patrisse Cullors, </b>co-founder of BLM, at <b>Rich Mix</b> as part of her UK tour for her new book <b><a href="https://ownit.london/an-abolitionists-handbook-12-steps-to-changing-yourself-and-the-world-by-patrisse-cullors/" target="_blank">An Abolitionist's Handbook</a> </b>out now with <a href="https://ownit.london/an-abolitionists-handbook-12-steps-to-changing-yourself-and-the-world-by-patrisse-cullors/" target="_blank"><b>OWN IT!</b> </a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Meanwhile</span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> over on <b>Soho Radio</b> you will find a vibrant new episode of <b><a href="https://anchor.fm/roaring20sradio" target="_blank">Roaring 20's Radio</a></b> out now featuring <b>Violet Malice </b>and <b>Repeat Beat Poet </b>performing<b> </b>live in the studio. Talking of Soho, this very week we had such an amazing paperback party at </span><b style="color: #4c1130;">Waterstones,</b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> Gower Street. Thank you <b>Waterstones</b> and <b>Canongate</b> for making this dream come true. I wanted to have a party here for months when the book first came out, but had to wait until now and it was a lovely evening. </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">Here's some action shots from <b>Waterstones</b> also by </span><b style="color: #4c1130;">Chris Beshi,</b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> Thank you! That is a lot of good stuff. I am writing this blog and catching my breath today, sun is shining, blossom on the trees, and l</span></span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: georgia;">ots of exciting events coming up this month, this spring, this summer, this year, this one short <span style="caret-color: rgb(76, 17, 48);">life time</span>... </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: georgia;">See you here and see you there, </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #4c1130; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Salena Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16248967585412769028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586202370098010042.post-73994234030784974372022-02-21T07:20:00.015-08:002022-02-23T06:41:21.979-08:00Mrs Death Misses Death: book tour March 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-rwaLW6SQZbX0IjBN52o-bJjAmSU4sjxGiysx9C82AIeSommd0iktqLIv8fP0j5sKItEieAn1N21fKpLdB1plhcr0QcdULMHzG5q9mSiLt4iVLVJZbDqtEEscFFTlnjqsXk7pijzb5oD3atEZsgvWUd3k5-YEcpE9d6O0GeJ5N1-N_BptZF7zz-ajZw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1079" data-original-width="1079" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-rwaLW6SQZbX0IjBN52o-bJjAmSU4sjxGiysx9C82AIeSommd0iktqLIv8fP0j5sKItEieAn1N21fKpLdB1plhcr0QcdULMHzG5q9mSiLt4iVLVJZbDqtEEscFFTlnjqsXk7pijzb5oD3atEZsgvWUd3k5-YEcpE9d6O0GeJ5N1-N_BptZF7zz-ajZw=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hello my dears, </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>I hope you're all okay and keeping safe and sound. </span>Just a quick post today to share some hot dates for the month of March. Next month I'm in Leeds, Laugharne, Hastings, Coventry, Pakistan and more!! Scroll down for a list of some awesome radio and podcasts out now and on the way to your ears this month.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Thank you to everyone who has been supporting and reviewing and sharing my book so far. </span>Since I last blogged I've had an amazing time launching the MDMD paperback. <span>The Mrs Death Misses Death read along is happening on Instagram now. </span>If you want to join in, post a photo, find the others, check out the tag <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mrsdeathreadalong/" target="_blank">#mrsdeathreadlong</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You'll find more links up on linktree: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://linktr.ee/salenagodden">https://linktr.ee/salenagodden</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>I'm getting ready to tour more and spring and summer is looking super exciting. See you soon, in real life and real time, live and online and in your headphones ... s</span>uch stormy weather as I type this ... batten down the hatches! Keep on keeping on, comrades, keep on keeping on.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sending thanks and love from here to there,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sgxx </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p></p><p><b><span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: x-large;">M A R C H 2 0 2 2</span></b></p><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 4: <a href="https://nymphsandthugs.net/tag/salena-godden/" target="_blank">Tubthumping, Farsley, Leeds </a></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 4-6: <a href="https://www.karachiliteraturefestival.com" target="_blank">Karachi Literature Festival, Pakistan</a> (online)</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 6: <a href="https://coventry2021.co.uk/search/?search=nutopia" target="_blank">Nutopia, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry</a> </b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 16: <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-of-live-performance-salena-godden-mrs-death-misses-death/london-gower-street" target="_blank">Waterstones, Gower Street, London</a> </b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 23: <a href="https://www.escis.org.uk/event/in-conversation-with-salena-godden/" target="_blank">Hastings Library, East Sussex Libraries</a></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 26-27: <a href="https://www.thelaugharneweekend.com" target="_blank">The Laugharne Weekend, Wales </a></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 30: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-matter-of-life-and-death-tickets-255440057087" target="_blank">The Death Positive Library, Wanstead Library, London </a></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 31: <a href="https://www.theboozybookclub.co.uk" target="_blank">The Boozy Book Club</a> (online)</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Yne1JmZEO3I" width="320" youtube-src-id="Yne1JmZEO3I"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"> I have been sent this: Here’s a short except from ‘I Know A Lot Of Dead People Now' from ‘Mrs Death Misses Death’ Salena Godden performing live on Life & Rhymes, Sky Arts TV. B</span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;">inge watch all episodes now, Life & Rhymes on Sky Arts! </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; text-align: left;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #262626;">Short clip shared on my YouTube channel with thanks to Professor Benjamin Zephaniah</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">the brilliant team at Life & Rhymes, Sky Arts!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYfeK_y878yW2STs0a_oLpDJh-16jYUkTwx0LGmoFNh5FfkgrXWOkMuZ5n7bC1EJrgFD5iI9iFQtJUEH4nc7O5A1m5kyqJjf1gUHMwEngDALfircwQaFVVHvRGCvL0QmjVygGoked9CSMSjngSb0KDcC3WxAf1CSKKVVlbrKWTa6SayjlPKke8YhkMsw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYfeK_y878yW2STs0a_oLpDJh-16jYUkTwx0LGmoFNh5FfkgrXWOkMuZ5n7bC1EJrgFD5iI9iFQtJUEH4nc7O5A1m5kyqJjf1gUHMwEngDALfircwQaFVVHvRGCvL0QmjVygGoked9CSMSjngSb0KDcC3WxAf1CSKKVVlbrKWTa6SayjlPKke8YhkMsw=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
This months stunning Boozy Book Club gift boxes are so beautiful and blue,
booky and boozy. Send one to a lovely friend or treat yourself!
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border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">…</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(191, 144, 0); color: #bf9000;">Radio shows, podcasts, interviews and book chats: </b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(191, 144, 0); color: #bf9000; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://news.prairiepublic.org/show/the-great-american-folk-show" target="_blank"><b>Great American Folk Show, Prairie Public Radio</b></a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://news.prairiepublic.org/show/the-great-american-folk-show" target="_blank">https://news.prairiepublic.org/show/the-great-american-folk-show</a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09n14fm" target="_blank"><b>BBC Radio 4 Extra, The Podcast Hour</b></a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09n14fm" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09n14fm</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://littleatoms.com" target="_blank">Little Atoms podcast</a></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://littleatoms.com" target="_blank">http://littleatoms.com</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150" target="_blank"><b>Across The Pond podcast</b></a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150" target="_blank">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><a href="http://www.yg2d.com/thepodcast" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>You’re Gonna Die podcast</b></span></a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><a href="http://www.yg2d.com/thepodcast" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">http://www.yg2d.com/thepodcast</span></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://alcs.buzzsprout.com" target="_blank">Author Matters, ALCS podcast</a></b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://alcs.buzzsprout.com" target="_blank">https://alcs.buzzsprout.com</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.21cm;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><br /></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ld40dpPHIO1527crQqEqU?si=8bd97b37a4dc4eaf" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b>Queer Death Stories</b>: <span style="text-align: start;"> </span></a></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ld40dpPHIO1527crQqEqU?si=8bd97b37a4dc4eaf" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">https://open.spotify.com/episode</span></a></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/deaddarlingspod/epsiode-28-salena-godden" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b>Dead Darlings</b>: </a></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; 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