These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice (Paperback)
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These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice (Paperback)

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Paperback 192 Pages
Published: 18/08/2022
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Waterstones Says

Deploying seasonal astrological poetry as a window onto the seasons of the soul, poetry phenomenon Nikita Gill delivers her first lyrical and engaging volume of verse for young adults.

Longlisted for The Jhalak Children's & Young Adults Prize 2023

From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger.

Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words.

Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection Nikita gives you the words to help heal from your first breakup, to celebrate finding your family, to understand first love, to express your anger and your joy, to fight for what you believe in and to help you break some rules to be your truest self.

Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Nikita herself and featuring seasonal astrological poetry, this collection is an achingly beautiful, stunningly warm and fearless expression of truth from one of the most influential and well-known voices in modern poetry.

Reminder for Healing
You do not owe anyone your forgiveness.
The trees do not apologize to the wind that uproots them.
The rocks do not apologize to the erosion by the sea.
The stars do not apologize to the universe
when they are writhing and dying out.
And you are not obligated to forgive anyone
but yourself.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529083606
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 142 g
Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 16 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

An empowering, heartbreaking and fierce collection that will resonate with many a reader. - Manjeet Mann, award-winning author of Run, Rebel

perfectly paint(s) a portrait of life - Eastern Eye

the ointment to soothe the turmoil of change. - The Scotsman

an empowering collection of feminist poems teens can dip in and out of whenever they want. - The Irish Times

a great choice for any young person with an interest in poetry or creative writing - The Irish Independent

(An) empowering collection of feminist poems - The Press

a book that ignites passion, soothes turmoil and offers a warm voice of wisdom. - The Glasgow Herald

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