Pepper Seed by Malika Booker Poetry and winner of the Hawthornden

and winner of the Hawthornden Prize) by way of The Marble Fly (1997)

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A side street in an unknown city: Felix Morning wakes with no memory

Perception and memory of taste and sound become more heightened as his eyesight fails

Pepper Seed by Malika Booker Poetry and winner of the HawthorndenShortlisted for the Poetry Prize for First Collection from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Malika Bookers Pepper Seed is map and compass to a world of distinct yet interconnected landscapes. At home in a number of locales (Brooklyn, Brixton, Trinidad, Guyana, and Grenada) Booker trains a brave eye on the unspeakable and the unspoken. By turns bearing witness, to the interior lives of the characters that people her poems, and laying herself bare,