Salena Godden: With Love, Grief and Fury

With Love, Grief and Fury is Salena Godden’s first full length poetry collection in over a decade and it 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. It is a collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration.

Springfield Road is Salena’s moving and poetic memoir about growing up without a father and a vivid portrait of the seventies. This is the story of a home. A story rooted in love. The story of a poet born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer, an absent father and a resilient mother. In Springfield Road, she evokes an era when oranges seemed bigger and summers were longer, a world of half-penny sweets, free school milk, hand-me-downs and Thatcher’s Britain, for those too young to remember and for those old enough to know. For Salena, it was a time for learning that life can be brutal with first betrayals and first losses, but also that there are endless riches to uncover in the world. In equal parts powerful, tender and fearless, Springfield Road shows us where, in a world full of shadows, the hope is to be found.

‘This is for the poets and provocateurs, artists and activists, witches and warriors, rebels and raconteurs, full-moon lovers and star sailors, bold-hearts and visionaries, dancers and divas, dawn-drinkers and deep-thinkers, peacekeepers and good-trouble makers, word-weavers and storytellers, prophets and preachers, healers and hope-punks, soul-seekers and big-dreamers.’

With Love, Grief and Fury, Salena Godden