Postcolonial BanterPostcolonial Banter is Suhaiymah Manzoo Khans debut collection. It features some of her most well known and widely performed poems as well as some never seen before material. Her words are a disruption of comfort, a call to action, a redistribution of knowledge and an outpouring of dissent. Whilst enraged and devastated by the world she finds herself in, in many ways it is also the mundane; hence, whilst political and complex in nature, her poetry is

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many of whom appear in Dylan Thomas-like character sketches

where myths are carved into remote caves and a mountain hides behind a 'froufrou of gas'

of the search for place

and into his own past

almost lilting

History rewrites itself

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This Paradise is a rare and beautiful collection of stories about people fleeing towards places or times or situations they hope might be better – trying to outrun their nature

atmospheric mystery

"Jennifer Wong’s voice is captivating

The poems in Take This One to Bed explore the passions and tensions of how we live together – as neighbours