Pepper Seed by Malika Booker Poetry A side street in an

A side street in an unknown city: Felix Morning wakes with no memory

Berger the poet demonstrates an enduring commitment to the extraordinary lives of ordinary people

the meditator’s gentle strength of will

‘One of the best poets writing in English on the planet today

Pepper Seed by Malika Booker Poetry A side street in anShortlisted for the Poetry Prize for First Collection from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Malika Bookers Pepper Seed is map and compass to a world of distinct yet interconnected landscapes. At home in a number of locales (Brooklyn, Brixton, Trinidad, Guyana, and Grenada) Booker trains a brave eye on the unspeakable and the unspoken. By turns bearing witness, to the interior lives of the characters that people her poems, and laying herself bare,