Wednesday, 17 July 2024

July 2024: touring, festivals and poetry...

 







Hey there, 


How are you doing? 


I want to take a moment to say a huge thank you to everyone that came out to see us on the LIVEwire tour last month. We enjoyed beautiful poetry gigs at The Edge in Manchester with Nafeesa Hamid and Molly Naylor, Wrecking Ball in Hull with Vicky Foster and Matt Abbott, Hyde Park Book Club and Leeds Lit Fest with Simone Yasmin, Faye Marshall and Spencer Wood hosted by Maria Ferguson, and Front Room in Weston-Super-Mare with Johnny Fluffypunk and Matt Abbott. We'll have some films and clips to share from these awesome set of shows soon, so watch this space...  


I also need to say thank you for everyone that came to Pages of Hackney bookshop on election night too. I loved chatting with and reading alongside my poetry sister Joelle Taylor (pictured). Check out her debut novel The Night Alphabet, it's so bloody brilliant and out now in hardback and audiobook. BIGlove and thanks to everyone at the fabulous Idler Festival in Hampstead and the fantastic ALSO Festival family too!






Sharing this gorgeous and generous review of the new poetry by Mab Jones!! So wonderful. Thank you so much Mab and Buzz Magazine Xx




Love this page from Octavia Butlers notes


For those of you following my socials...

I have been tweeting and instagramming about one of my heroes Octavia Butler: July 20 2024 is Octavia Butler day — It is the date that her novel ‘Parable of The Sower’ begins. I love Octavia’s writing. I urge you to read, re-read or seek out the audio book of this prophetic and brilliant work. It opens with these lines “all that you touch, you change, all that you change, changes you, the only lasting truth is change…” 

-- Read it! 


The first page of Parable Of The Sower


For more of my book recommendations have a look at my lists for Roaring 20’s Radio Show. Amah-Rose and Matt and I host and produce our show monthly for Soho Radio. I have topped up the book list, it is a labour of love making our radio shows and podcasts, however, I must tell you that 2024 has been amazing for books so far! 


Here’s a link: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/salenagodden




Talking of podcasts and book recommendations: I’m chatting about the amazing poetry of Nikita Gill on the latest episode of Arji’s Pickle Jar - I love the format of this show and I am so very happy to be asked to pick a poem, Arji is brilliant and Nikita is a phenomenal writer too, I enjoyed this so much.





Coming up I’m doing a headline solo performance at Green Gathering in Chepstow, August 3rd. Then I’m up in Scotland to do shows at Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 10th, 11th and 12th. And then I head south and home to the seaside for a gig with Hastings Book Festival where I will be in conversation with my beautiful friend Anita Rani in September.


I’ll see you here and there,


Keep on keeping on my lovelies... 


BIGlove, Xxsg




For more writings, my Substack page is 'With Love, Grief and Fury' I've been sharing notes, poetry, tour diaries on there, you can follow and subscribe for free here: 

https://salenagodden.substack.com/




Bookshop window, Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh


Poetry and books and tour dates:








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Poem: ‘And You Will Go’ published in Traveller Magazine.
What a beautiful lay out and gorgeous artwork, thank you!


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