Salena Godden

Salena's Bookshoppe: http://salenagodden.bigcartel.com

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✨Out now ‘The Lockdown EP’ a new digital release with Nymphs & Thugs with 50% profits to go to the NHS - NHS Charities Together  - Find it all on #Spotify #itunes #bandcamp etc...

 https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/salenagodden/the-lockdown-ep ⭐️ Thank you for all your messages and shares! Thank you for these electronic but heart felt connections, I miss your faces, sending BIGlove to you all! Please stay home if you can, protect the NHS and protect each other! 💙

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🐺 ‘Mrs Death Misses Death’ is available for pre-order now! 

“Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn’t met Death in person — a black woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death’s scribe, and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit, Wolf travels with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity.  As Godden swoops between literary forms in Mrs Death and Wolf’s interactions, the friendship sparks questions about class, race, gender and mental health. And ultimately, while mortality lies at the heart of the novel, Mrs Death Misses Death is a bold and visionary affirmation of hope, resilience and love.”

My first review has been added to the book description, some words from the great Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Jerusalem, Swamp Thing and more, more, Moore ... endorsement like this for a new book and first time novelist is so vital. I'm blown away by this generosity ... THANK YOU ALAN MOORE!

Mrs Death Misses Death has been described by the publishers as an electrifying, genre- and form-defying fire-starter of a novel. 

Canongate will publish 'Mrs Death Misses Death' January 28 2021, RRP £14.99 hardback. This work is now available to pre-order from your favourite local indie bookshops, Waterstones, Amazon ...  Read books! Stay home! Stay safe! Xx 

Click here to pre-order at Amazon Click here to pre-order at Waterstones

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✨💛🍺 Well I do declare festival season is almost here ... Have you got your tickets yet for #seachange #Totnes May 24-26 - I’ll be bringing some #pessimismisforlightweights there and performing with @roughtradebooks and chatting with @clairecallender and @rucallender - What a supreme line up!! VERY looking forward to this one!! See you all in 4 weeks time in sunny Devon!! Tix and info: seachangefestival.co.uk 🙌🏾💛✨

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🙌🏾💙 Excerpt from my poem ‘Time To Check In’ published in #eightyfour by @vervepoetrypress - TONIGHT Join poets Helen Calcutt, Peter Raynard, Anthony Anaxagorou and Salena Godden, as we come together to launch a courageous new collection on themes of vulnerability, grief and hope, all proceeds in aid of @calmzone at @foylesforbooks Charing Cross Road: bit.ly/2J7hOt2 

And hey, if you cannot make the event this evening I urge you to read and share this beautiful book. See you tonight at #Foyles! 💙🙌🏾 

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SOUP | SALENA GODDEN | LIVE AT SPRING UPRISING

Live performance of 'Soup' by Salena Godden Filmed with thanks to Jamie Lowe at Spring Uprising, Bristol, March 2019 This poem is published in 'Pessimism is ...

NEW today: ‘Soup’ by Salena Godden, performed live at Spring Uprising, Bristol, March 2019

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❤️ Congratulations! Well done for making it through Monday! Just a gentle reminder, this week is #IWD and you are all invited to @roughtradeeast @roughtradebooks, there will be poets and music and talks and books and booze and we are collecting for #redboxproject @theredboxproject_hackneynorth so please bring donations! See you Friday! March 8th! #iwd2019 #freeperiods #seered #stoptampontax #womenofinsta #supportwomenartists https://www.instagram.com/p/BumGLvBgFjl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dwv2hyt7bnhw

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🙌🏾💛 Good morning, woo hoo, it’s busy in here this morning, spring is springing and the bells are ringing! Some amazing events, friendly gatherings and BBC radio gigs coming up this month. To begin with VERY excited this week to be returning to Rough Trade East this Friday March 8th for #iwd2019 with the @roughtradebooks gang. I’m talking about courage and resistance on #TheVerb @bbcradio3 this Friday too. Please visit #waitingforgodden for tickets and info and poetry.:. #linkinbio - I look forward to seeing your friendly faces and celebrating #internationalwomensday with you all. We will be collecting for #RedBoxProject @gem_abbott so please remember to bring donations if you can and let’s see an end to period poverty! #freeperiods #endperiodpoverty #endperiodshame #stoptampontax #courageisamuscle #pessimismisforlightweights #bbc #bbctheverb #bbcpoetryplease (at Rough Trade East) https://www.instagram.com/p/BulVtPrAv1P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h9kc67j45hfn

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“... when we latch onto an idea like loving someone or like hating someone, we make a pathway, sticking to one narration, one version about a person or subject, until the ivy knots in our head, K said, and the branch gets thicker and thicker, the pathways we create, love and hate, we get stuck, and we cannot see reason or light.” ‘It’s all about the pathways’ poem by #salenagodden #pessimismisforlightweights @roughtradebooks @nymphsandthugs #poetsofinstagram #poetry #poetryofinstagram #poetsofig #K #currentmood #untanglethemind https://www.instagram.com/p/Btk4c5pg_dy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g9gmf9b9hse1

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🙌🏾💛 Excerpt from #Shade #thegoodimmigrant - Getting ready to visit @uniofleicester #leicesteruni today, see you all there!! #wetickother #bookstagram #readatleicester #writersofinsta #readersofinstagram #leicester 🌎📚 #repost 💛🙌🏾 @uniofleicester Join us 29 January for a free panel discussion on 'Race and Identity in Contemporary Britain' with the authors of our #ReadAtLeicester book, #TheGoodImmigrant 📖📚 ow.ly/GfDZ30nqUeX @weimingkam @nshuklawhaaat @rapclassroom #salenagodden (at University of Leicester) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtNkeqwA7X1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e74ncnkjpfbh

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💛🙌🏾 My year was dominated by publishing this one poem. Scrolling months of tweets and instagrams tagged #pessimismisforlightweights I feel despite everything, 2018 was a year of courage, resistance and love. Thank you, bold hearts, big dreamers, keep fighting the good fight! 🙌🏾💛 #courageisamuscle #salenagodden #courageandresistance #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #motivation #dreamofabetterworld #keepfightingthegoodfight #highlightsof2018 (at Arnolfini) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrUzQ7RgE9O/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yo73pc8ljba1

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💛✨Pessimism is for lightweights! 💛🙌🏾 So excited to discover my 13 pieces of courage and resistance made it onto the Rough Trade Top 10 Books of 2018! Excellent company too! Thanks to @ninjaherve @roughtradebooks @roughtrade and above all massive thank you to all the heavyweights sharing and reading #pessimismisforlightweights - Check out this epic and exciting book list in full at RoughTrade.com - Thank you! #bookstagram #bookoftheyear #toptenbooks2018 #booklist #roughtrade #roughtradeeditions #counterculture #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #courageisamuscle #courageandresistance https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq7JBgFAra5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e9kne4rmz45

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#MrsDeathMissesDeath - The BBC followed this work in progress over the last 12 months and you can hear the documentary tomorrow on BBC Radio 4 at 4.30pm. 2018 was a roller coaster of touring and writing and editing the first draft of this book whilst working on the soundtrack in collaboration with Peter Coyte whilst making the BBC documentary all at the same time. 2018 kept me on my toes to say the least. The prose feeding the album and recording sessions with Peter Coyte. The album seeping back into the prose and the book. The performances feeding the rewrites and all of this steering the documentary too. What a year and a surprising and challenging way to make a new body of work. What a freedom to feel the fear and do it anyway. This programme is like glimpsing into the shed in my head. We’re on air tomorrow, Sunday December 2nd at 4.30pm, BBC Radio 4. And if you miss that you’ll be able to find this on the BBC website. Thank you! - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001dg9 - #mrsdeathmissesdeath #workinprogress #bookalbum #lifeanddeath #iknowalotofdeadpeoplenow #december https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq2Yss9ARvr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wkad34shqknn

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🙌🏾🥂💛 Wow!! Thank you!! @roughtrade @roughtradebooks Thank you to all who read and supported these poems of courage and resistance! #pessimismisforlightweights #salenagodden - amazing line up, check out the full 2018 list at roughtrade.com - #bookstagram #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #courageisamuscle #courageandresistance #booklist #booklist2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BqsOLtpglJl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3lknvywaiuz1

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💀💜 Thank you to all that came to our sold out show @tomthumbtheatre Margate - We had a packed house and it was the perfect venue, warm crowd and ambience for another sharing of this developing new book and album #mrsdeathmissesdeath . . Thank you Peter Coyte @petercoyte and thank you @whiskybeards #thanetwriters for all your support, sending big love to our #Whitstable, #Ramsgate and #Margate family and friends xx 💀✨ . . . Looking forward to doing more #MrsDeathMissesDeath live shows and on the look out for the worlds secret venues, unusual theatre spaces, music halls and even churches ... message us if you have any ideas. Open to suggestions. Weirder the location the better! . . The BBC documentary about this work so far, following the last 12 months of work in progress, will be broadcast this time next week on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday Dec 2nd at 4pm. Tune in! More clips and dates confirmed soon! My excellent Mrs Death kimono by @dianegoldie thank you! . . #mrsdeath #climatechangeishere #savetheplanet #savethehuman #survival #lifeanddeath #courageandresistance #iknowalotofdeadpeoplenow (at Tom Thumb Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqUb27vgq2Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1aetd299jr0m3

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SAGE | SALENA GODDEN

"The hot moon has nudged us awake called us come bare foot and naked hearted...

Sage by Salena Godden - Performed LIVE at Byline Festival Now up on youtube: https://youtu.be/omvFQBTpGn8