Pepper Seed by Malika Booker Poetry Many writers found themselves on

Many writers found themselves on the front-line

Berger the poet demonstrates an enduring commitment to the extraordinary lives of ordinary people

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

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

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

Pepper Seed by Malika Booker Poetry Many writers found themselves onShortlisted 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,