With Love, Grief and Fury
- 2 May 2024
- 9781805303510
- £16.99
- 240 pp
- 142×221mm
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In a few words
A collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration from powerhouse of British poetry and award-winning novelist, Salena Godden
In a few words
A collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration from powerhouse of British poetry and award-winning novelist, Salena Godden
In a few words
A collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration from powerhouse of British poetry and award-winning novelist, Salena Godden
In a few words
A collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration from one of the powerhouses of British poetry and award-winning novelist Salena Godden
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
Heartfelt and surreal, uncompromising and tender, Godden holds the poem in the palm of her hand like a hummingbird
Joelle Taylor
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
Heartfelt and surreal, uncompromising and tender, Godden holds the poem in the palm of her hand like a hummingbird
Joelle Taylor
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
Heartfelt and surreal, uncompromising and tender, Godden holds the poem in the palm of her hand like a hummingbird
Joelle Taylor
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
Heartfelt and surreal, uncompromising and tender, Godden holds the poem in the palm of her hand like a hummingbird
Joelle Taylor
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the book
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.
More about
the book
With Love, Grief and Fury is poetry full of love and hope for people and planet. Grief poems brimming with compassion, mourning what was lost whilst contemplating what might be found. And poems of fire and fury that kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change. This is Salena Godden’s most audacious and definitive collection to date – like a big sister’s arm around your shoulder, it is important and nourishing for the soul.
More about
the book
With Love, Grief and Fury is poetry full of love and hope for people and planet. Grief poems brimming with compassion, mourning what was lost whilst contemplating what might be found. And poems of fire and fury that kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change. This is Salena Godden’s most audacious and definitive collection to date – like a big sister’s arm around your shoulder, it is important and nourishing for the soul.
More about
the book
With Love, Grief and Fury is poetry full of love and hope for people and planet. Grief poems brimming with compassion, mourning what was lost whilst contemplating what might be found. And poems of fire and fury that kick some ass, tell the truth and inspire change. This is Salena Godden’s most audacious and definitive collection to date – like a big sister’s arm around your shoulder, it is important and nourishing for the soul.
Sheer brilliance, every verse a revelation! This book belongs amongst the classics, and Godden herself is one of the greatest living British poets
Nikita Gill
Godden's verses are firing on all cylinders and display how she is a master at arriving at universal emotional truths. Revelatory and heart stopping
Mona Arshi
Like a heart turned inside out . . . joyous and utterly revelatory
Evie Wyld
In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound
Heidi James-dunbar
Sheer brilliance, every verse a revelation! This book belongs amongst the classics, and Godden herself is one of the greatest living British poets
Nikita Gill
Godden's verses are firing on all cylinders and display how she is a master at arriving at universal emotional truths. Revelatory and heart stopping
Mona Arshi
Like a heart turned inside out . . . joyous and utterly revelatory
Evie Wyld
In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound
Heidi James-dunbar
Sheer brilliance, every verse a revelation! This book belongs amongst the classics, and Godden herself is one of the greatest living British poets
Nikita Gill
Godden's verses are firing on all cylinders and display how she is a master at arriving at universal emotional truths. Revelatory and heart stopping
Mona Arshi
Like a heart turned inside out . . . joyous and utterly revelatory
Evie Wyld
In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound
Heidi James-dunbar
Sheer brilliance, every verse a revelation! This book belongs amongst the classics, and Godden herself is one of the greatest living British poets
Nikita Gill
Godden's verses are firing on all cylinders and display how she is a master at arriving at universal emotional truths. Revelatory and heart stopping
Mona Arshi
Like a heart turned inside out . . . joyous and utterly revelatory
Evie Wyld
In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound
Heidi James-dunbar
Salena Godden
View profileSalena 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.
salenagodden.co.uk | @salena.godden
Salena Godden
View profileSalena 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 for Best Single Poem – Performed. 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.
salenagodden.co.uk | @salena.godden
Salena Godden
View profileSalena 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.
salenagodden.co.uk | @salena.godden
Salena Godden
View profileSalena 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.
salenagodden.co.uk | @salena.godden
