With Love, Grief and Fury
Salena Godden
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A collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration from powerhouse of British poetry and award-winning novelist, Salena Godden
With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems, for people and the planet. Grief poems brimming with compassion, mourning what was and contemplating what could be. And poems of fire and fury that will kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change and hope.
Over thirty years after she first stormed the UK poetry scene, the trailblazing and award-winning writer Salena Godden has produced her most audacious and definitive collection to date. Like a big sister’s arm around your shoulder, With Love, Grief and Fury is important and nourishing for the soul.
“Incredible … [Salena is] more glorious than ever, and this book again proves that she’s a poet of the page as well as one who can command a stage … dashingly clever and full of wit, speaks from the heart and acts from there, too”
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“Heartfelt and surreal, uncompromising and tender, Godden holds the poem in the palm of her hand like a hummingbird”
Joelle Taylor
“Sheer brilliance, every verse a revelation! This book belongs amongst the classics, and Godden herself is one of the greatest living British poets”
Nikita Gill
“Godden’s verses are firing on all cylinders and display how she is a master at arriving at universal emotional truths. Revelatory and heart stopping”
Mona Arshi
“Like a heart turned inside out … joyous and utterly revelatory”
Evie Wyld
Salena Godden
Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of mixed Jamaican-Irish heritage. Her debut novel, Mrs Death Misses Death, won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People’s Book Prize, and was shortlisted at the British Book Awards and for the Gordon Burn Prize. Her most recent books include the literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road and poetry collections Pessimism is for Lightweights and With Love, Grief and Fury, which was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Award and received a Special Commendation from The Poetry Book Society. ‘Dirty Old Men’, published in WLGF, was highly commended by the Forward Poetry Prize 2025 in the Best Single Poem - Performed category. Her work has been shortlisted for the 4thWrite Short Story Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, Jerwood Compton Foundation and the Bridport Poetry Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Patron of Hastings Book Festival and an Honorary Fellow of West Dean, Sussex.
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