We Play Here by Dawn Watson Linda Black The poems cast light backwards

The poems cast light backwards

and regularly appears on BBC Breakfast and BBC2’s Coast

blissing in sudden spiritual moments

She has been Poet in Residence for Open Garden Squares at various London locations and was a finalist in the Poetry Rivals National Slam 2015

We Play Here by Dawn Watson Linda Black The poems cast light backwardsWe Play Here is a collection of four poem stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence during the Troubles. Written from the perspectives of four female friends in the months between finishing primary school and starting high school, the girls inhabit an eerie, elemental landscape of normalised violence, poverty and neglect. This is a lyrical and