Awards

• Short-listed for Books Are My Bag Readers Awards - Poetry 2025 (UK)

Overview

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.

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Reviews

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 * * Buzz Mag * * 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 In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound -- HEIDI JAMES-DUNBAR Read these poems then listen to Salena read these poems then go and watch Salena read these poems. She is a master of every incarnation this art form may take and I am constantly in awe of her. This collection brings so much joy and makes me determined to live more, lust more and love more -- HOLLIE MCNISH This is a book I will return to over and over and over again, a book everyone should have on their shelf. Salena's poems are all at once intimate and tender, vast and powerful, compelling, funny, delightful, precise, and always always bursting with life -- CECILIA KNAPP This book is so hopeful, so full of life -- BABS GONS A visceral call to action and an ode to the human condition . . . [Godden's] poetry holds love and anger in the same breath, pairing beauty with protest * * Madrid Times * *

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 * * Buzz Mag * * 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 In these poems Salena reveals, with exquisite craft and tenderness, the sacred and profound -- HEIDI JAMES-DUNBAR Read these poems then listen to Salena read these poems then go and watch Salena read these poems. She is a master of every incarnation this art form may take and I am constantly in awe of her. This collection brings so much joy and makes me determined to live more, lust more and love more -- HOLLIE MCNISH This is a book I will return to over and over and over again, a book everyone should have on their shelf. Salena's poems are all at once intimate and tender, vast and powerful, compelling, funny, delightful, precise, and always always bursting with life -- CECILIA KNAPP This book is so hopeful, so full of life -- BABS GONS A bittersweet collection that takes on the big themes without losing sight of the tiny details, those small everyday miracles that make life worth living . . . Uplifting -- PATIENCE AGBABI

Author Information

Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet, memoirist 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. Her work has also been shortlisted for the 4thWrite short story prize, the Ted Hughes Award, Jerwood Compton Foundation, the Saboteur Awards and The Bridport Prize. Salena Godden is one of the UK's foremost poets, often topping the bill at national and international literary events and festivals. She is widely anthologised and broadcast on BBC radio, TV and film. Her poem 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' is on permanent display at the People's History Museum, Manchester. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of West Dean, Sussex, and a patron of Hastings Book Festival. salenagodden.co.uk | @salena.godden

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