Join Libreria as we welcome renowned performance poet and powerhouse of British poetry Salena Godden in celebration of her latest collection, now in paperback, which is full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration.

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.

About our guests:

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 for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Her most recent books include the literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road and poetry collections, With Love, Grief and Fury and Pessimism is for Lightweights: 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance. Her work has been shortlisted for the 4thWrite Short Story Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, Jerwood Compton Foundation, Bridport Poetry Prize and highly commended by the Forward 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.

Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, writer, actor and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published seven collections of poetry including Wild Embers, Fierce Fairytales, Great Goddesses, Where Hope Comes From and These Are The Words
She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! and her book, a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published by Ebury on National Poetry Day 2020. She has also published a novel in verse for Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary called The Angel of Redemption and her children’s audiobook Animal Tales From India won Highly Commended in the Week Junior Kids Awards. Her next book, Hekate, the first novel in a loosely connected trilogy about the Greek goddesses of the Underworld, will be published in autumn 2025 by Simon & Schuster in the UK and Little, Brown in US. Her work has been nominated for the Carnegie medal, shortlisted for the CLIPPA and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.