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5 months ago

Text: new paperback edition pre-order available now, published by Canongate and in your favourite bookshops 09 Oct 2025

image: red book with white writing WITH LOVE, GRIEF AND FURY, Salena Godden on cream background with swirling flames, orange and red

red text on cream background, a verse from a poem titled 'Patient Creature'

"I long for you
the sound of you
I listen for your key
turning in the lock
your footsteps in the hall
your hello hello hello voice
I sit on the stairs and watch the door
and wait and listen and
wait and listen
and wait."

#withlovegriefandfury
paperback edition published
@canongate.co.uk 09 Oct 25

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5 months ago

I didn't dream it, exactly. I wouldn't have known to. Yogurt piled onto a spoon, a little salt and honey. In my other parts of the world this house would have long since given itself to darkness, but tonight it is not yet night, not according to the sky, gradual reveal of its moon like silk dropping from the body. The other moon rippling in the water below. Glasses clink, a mouth opens to release a laugh, teeth catching in the light.

An excerpt from 'The Poets' by Safia Elhillo, which is featured in the latest issue of The Poetry Review and available to read in full for free on our website. 📚

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5 months ago

🖤 Beautiful Black Women's Faces Coloring Book for Adults
> “Grace in every gaze. Power in every curl.”
> Celebrate the beauty, depth, and dignity of Black women through lines that invite your colors.
> Which shade speaks to strength today?
> #BlackArt #BlackSky #ColoringForHealing #IndieBooks

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5 months ago

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

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5 months ago

Assata Shakur. RIP.

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5 months ago

Rest in Power Assata Shakur!
According to the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Shakur died Thursday from “health ailments and her advanced age.”

Listen to the Black revolutionary explain how the struggle against imperialism is the fight for the liberation of oppressed people worldwide.

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5 months ago

“Ninguém no mundo, ninguém na história, jamais obteve sua liberdade apelando ao senso moral das pessoas que os oprimiam.”

Descanse em liberdade, Assata Shakur. 🖤

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5 months ago

LOVE
Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.
But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply The hacksaw has two blades.
The shotgun has two barrels.
We are pregnant with freedom.
We are a conspiracy.

RIP Assata Shakur

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5 months ago

Black and white photo of Assata Shakur in the background. With a quote from her autobiography in grey text highlighted in creme and pink - "I have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down." - Assata Shakur, may she rest in power.

Honoring the legacy of revolutionary, freedom fighter, poet, author Assata Shakur. May we carry forward her teachings and spirt in our ongoing struggle for liberation. ❤️

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8 months ago

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A great, bright, beautiful mind, with an extensive knowledge bank, taken by dementia. Thank you🙏🏾💐✊🏾

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