This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland Wayne Holloway-Smith the need for kindness and

the need for kindness and gratitude has become more important than ever

covertly teaching signs by day and by night heroically luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain

At its heart is a heroic crown of sonnets

as in the poem 'Coursework' – is our teacher

in the form of a dead woman

This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland Wayne Holloway-Smith the need for kindness andPublished 19th June 2025. How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers. Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.