Half the Human Race includes poems from three previous collections
The only time she feels safe is when swimming
United by themes of transition and transformation
‘Grace Nichols came to Britain from Guyana at the age of 27 and she has carried the warmth of her Caribbean sensibility through many a cold English winter
Duhig explores urban poverty
This is Not a Stunt by Cath Nichols Josep Lluís Aguiló Half the Human Race includesIn these poems, living with disability or being trans are not tragedies to overcome but ways of being, with their own humour, romance, stories and mundanity. Embracing the ordinary (Were middle aged, of course. Life rolls on) and the remarkable, Cath Nichols revisits her childhood in New Zealand and her teenage years in Kent, before crossing several decades (and haircuts) on the gay scene in Manchester. At the heart of the collection is a sequence,