Somebody Give This Heart a Pen

From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a powerful new collection of poems exploring issues of identity difference perseverance relationships fear loss and joy. The collection is arranged as life is: from youth to school to home life falling in love and falling straight back out again. The poems draw on the author's experience as a young mixed-race young woman trying to make sense of a lonely and complicated world. With a strong narrative voice and emotional empathy this is poetry that will resonate with all young people whatever their background and whatever their dreams.

?An amazingly talented spoken word poet.? MTV