Salena Godden: With Love, Grief and Fury

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Friday 11 July 2025

6:30 pm

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Renowned performance poet and powerhouse of British poetry, Salena Godden published her latest collection of poetry With Love, Grief and Fury in May 2024 and on the same day her memoir Springfield Road: A Poet’s Childhood Revisited was re-released. Salena’s electrifying live performances, at everywhere from literary festivals to the Women’s March and Extinction Rebellion protests in London’s Parliament Square, have earned her a devoted following and we can’t wait to witness her West Cork performance.

 

‘Read these poems then listen to Salena read these poems then go and watch Salena read these poems. She is a master of every incarnation this art form may take and I am constantly in awe of her. This collection brings so much joy and makes me determined to live more, lust more and love more.’ Hollie McNish

Admission: €16

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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

 

   

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Salena Godden

Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage based in London. Her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death won the Indie Book Award for Fiction...

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