The Celox and the Clot by Hafsah Bashir
Hafsah Aneela Bashir's debut poetry collection is by turns tender, poignant and fierce.
`There is a strength, humanity and vitality in her writing that I find glorious, hopeful and outstandingA powerful debut collection, heartfelt and original, Hafsah has a voice that rips your heart out.' SALENA GODDEN; `This epic and moving collection from Hafsah Aneela Bashir arrives in UK literature when it is needed most - a humorous, heartbreaking and elegant examination of modern motherhood and modern warfare, politics and personal disappointments, familial negotiation and the cultural negation that post-colonialism still exerts in so many places. A beautiful book.' SABRINA MAHFOUZ; `This is a startling, bold debut from a voice that needs to be heard in contemporary poetry. Hafsah Aneela Bashir's work simmers with questing, searching intelligence, brims with compassion, anger and love. These poems never settle for the ordinary, reaching for images that ruffle the surface of our everyday lives: the `serrated edge' of a phone call, a house like a corpse, the `aubergine eye' of a paint stain. Above all else, this is poetry which humanises its every subject - Bashir eloquently challenges complacency, calls-out hatred and fear, honours people by their names.'HELEN MORT
Hafsah Aneela Bashir is a writer and performance poet with an MA in Postcolonial Literary and Culture from the University of Leeds. Her work has been published by Crocus Books in the anthologies, When Saira Met Sarah, Elevator Fiction and 80 Decibels Above Sound. Co-director of the arts collective, Outside The Frame Arts, she is passionate about platforming voices outside of mainstream arts. She works with marginalized and underrepresented communities delivering creative writing workshops centred around identity and empowerment. Also a TOAST2016 poet and one of six recipients of Manchester International Festival’s Jerwood Fellowships 2017, she recently wrote and performed a monologue based on her grandmother’s experience of the India/Pakistan 1947 partition with The Royal Exchange Theatre. She is currently on an Artistic Director’s Leaders of Tomorrow programme, has performed for numerous festivals, is creating theatre work of her own exploring womanhood and faith.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911570509 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911570501 |
| Title | The Celox and the Clot |
| Author | Hafsah Aneela Bashir |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Burning Eye Books |
| Year published | 2018-09-07 |
| Number of pages | 100 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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