This is the first substantial selection of
poems by SuAndi, whose work - as performer, writer for stage and arts
curator - has recently been celebrated by the award of the Benson Medal
by the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is an honorary fellow,
for services to literature across her career, which recognised her
poems' fierce, vividly powerful and dramatic depictions of women's lives
- in Manchester, the city she grew up in - and of Black communities and
the lives of those whose voices are not often heard, even now, in
contemporary British literature.
In this selection, the rhythms of speech and performance echo off the
page. Though she is as at home with the dramatic monologue as the lyric
and the ballad, SuAndi's poems defy easy categorisation and make
visible on the page a remarkable trailblazing writing career.
Paperback / softback | 342 pages | Published October 2025
