About this Event
Join Salena Godden for an intimate evening of readings and captivating conversation, discussing her latest collection, Love, Grief and Fury.
Three decades since her groundbreaking debut on the UK poetry scene Salena Godden unveils her boldest and most definitive collection yet.
With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems for people and the planet, poems of grief brimming with compassion, and poems of fire and fury that kick some ass.
Salena Godden is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage based in London. Her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People's Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Salena's work has been shortlisted for the 4thWrite short story prize and the Ted Hughes Prize, and has been widely anthologised and broadcast on radio, TV and film. Her poem Pessimism is for Lightweights is on permanent display at the People’s History Museum, Manchester. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
Saturday 11th May, 7pm
The Bluecoat, 8 School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX
Ticket price: £10
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Bluecoat, 8 School Lane, Liverpool, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00
