Self Heal by Samantha Walton Christine Marendon Shortlisted for the Forward Prize

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Claudia Rankine described the poems in Alsadir’s first book as 'lawless

even more significantly

He negotiates with intensity and wit between a deep sense of human universals and a heartfelt fidelity to individual places

rather than answer

Self Heal by Samantha Walton Christine Marendon Shortlisted for the Forward PrizeA much anticipated debut collection from the supremely talented Samantha Walton. Self Heal brims with riotous and tender experimental lyrics on love, work, protest, and survival among haunted interiors and post industrial landscapes. It explores processes of destruction and healing, testing the possibilities of self and collective care through meditations on poetic artifice and the architecture of identity, all with a thrilling linguistic strut and