Pepper Seed Evelyn Shakir When it kicks off outside

When it kicks off outside the ground with the Castleton fans

Qassim Haddad – Five Poems

And this is a compliment

To fall in love again

Pepper Seed Evelyn Shakir When it kicks off outsideThese poems are shaped by the various places Malika Booker has come to know as home: Brooklyn, Brixton, Grenada, Trinidad and Guyana. One minute were in Grenada, the next at border control in Heathrow all part of a larger story of diaspora and displacement. Influenced by the likes of Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Sharon Olds and Toi Derricotte, Booker weaves a visceral, emotive patchwork of the dramas inherent in both extraordinary world travel and