Octopus Medicine by Becci Louise Alice Oswald Malika Booker’s Pepper Seed is

Malika Booker’s Pepper Seed is map and compass to a world of distinct yet interconnected landscapes

explorers and settlers

and all-embracing

inviting us to connect with what it means to return to a place of primordial connection

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Octopus Medicine by Becci Louise Alice Oswald Malika Booker’s Pepper Seed isAn Octopus who dreams of stars, a self important fisherman who gets what's coming to him, and a misunderstood monster, Octopus Medicine is an invitation to adventure for the misfits, the lonely, the outsiders. These three verse stories call us down into another world the world of the octopus where days are dark, everything is out to eat you and nothing is really what it seems. Written for young and old alike, this is a collection to be read at