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REVIEW: NAFEESA HAMID’S ‘BESHARAM’
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | What intrigues me most about Nafeesa Hamid’s début collection Besharam (One who is shameless) is the innovative way she uses language and imagery to express her conflicted relationship with her body. Innocence was snatched from Hamid in the most brutal way. Abducted from outside her Birmingham home at the age of nine, she was driven around the city in the back of a stranger’s car, subjected to […]
REVIEW: ROY MCFARLANE’S ‘BEGINNING WITH YOUR LAST BREATH’
Reviewed by Stella Backhouse | ‘Home’ should ideally be the definition of ‘security’; but in Beginning With Your Last Breath, Roy McFarlane’s deeply affecting debut collection, the poet navigates the complexities of creating identity amidst a double-dose of unease. Firstly, growing up black in a […]