Darling Girl by S. Niroshini Kirsten Luckins He leaves behind him a

He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture

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Illustrated by Emma Wright

party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor’s cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women

Darling Girl by S. Niroshini Kirsten Luckins He leaves behind him aThese poems unveil an exciting new voice. Niroshini is unafraid to climb the ladder of risk, swerving from the territory of girlhood to the pain of an underexamined past, gently excavating ancestral memory. Mona Arshi I read Niroshinis work, feeling like Im centre stage about to watch everything unfold. I love how I was brought into history, lived experience and language. The skill in holding the reader, and allowing their imagination to latch on to