Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems by SuAndi Shazea Quraishi identify and celebrate both the

identify and celebrate both the smallest and weightiest of life's experiences and concepts

as these combine to displace a burgeoning identity rather than overtly defining one

In Writing through Siddartha Bagoo refashions Hermann Hesse’s eponymous novel

The collection is dedicated to Wilson Harris whose challenging and paradigm-changing ideas on these matters deeply influenced Mark McWatt’s own thinking

Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems by SuAndi Shazea Quraishi identify and celebrate both theThis is the first substantial selection of poems by SuAndi, whose work as performer, writer for stage and arts curator has recently been celebrated by the award of the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is an honorary fellow, for services to literature across her career, which recognised her poems fierce, vividly powerful and dramatic depictions of womens lives in Manchester, the city she grew up in and of Black communities