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Salena Godden

2 months

✨Looking forward to sharing more #withlovegriefandfury with you, my next dates: August 3 @GreenGathering_ August 10-12 @edbookfest September 21 @HastingsbookFes Here’s some pictures from last years #greengathering see you there lovelies! Xx 🎟️

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Salena Godden

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4 years

pack a pub give ‘em beer pints of virus shots of fear watch ‘em fall gutter sick cull the poor kill ‘em quick parliament let nurses down clapclapclap for the clown open pub covid beer pour libations costs us dear lies and shame drink or bust ashes to ashes dust to dust

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Salena Godden

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reading about this reminds me of this brilliant photo "we'll be less activist if you be less shit"

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Salena Godden

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2 months

Please can we gather and have an Octavia Butler day on July 20th 2024 when her Parable Of The Sower begins, “all that you touch, you change, all that you change, changes you, the only lasting truth is change…” powerful work, beautiful book, so prophetic. Read it! Xx

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Earthseed Day: Octavia Butler Day. It is July 20 2024, the first page of the diaries of Lauren Oya Olamina. Massive global read along. I urge you to read or listen to the audiobook THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER. Support your libraries and bookshops! “The only lasting truth is change”

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Salena Godden

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5 years

This! You tweet tears for Notre Dame. The Amazon Rainforest is the greatest cathedral on the planet. Now where are the billionaires to pray to this god, to save this church, to save these forests, animals and people. This is oxygen, rich or poor, we all need air

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@beehaviour_

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The Amazon rainforest provides 20% of the world's oxygen. People are deliberately starting fires in effort to illegally deforest land for cattle ranching. President Bolsonaro is letting this slide!! #AmazonRainforest #PrayforAmazonas

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Salena Godden

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6 years

We observe two minutes silence in a Costa in a motorway services muted customers hold hot drinks awkward silently remembering the futility of war in a Costa owned by Coke whilst buying petrol from billionaires that profit from the trading of arms and oil and life

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Salena Godden

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4 years

Watch your tone when expressing valid concern for the deaths of other human beings; watch your tone when communicating facts and sharing the grief and fury felt globally and by so many; watch your tone when speaking the truth with brown face and female tongue in the masters house

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Salena Godden

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4 years

💚 Mourn the dead Fight like hell for the living 💚

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Salena Godden

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5 years

“I’m living it right now in this conversation” never a truer sentence spoken, thanks and love and solidarity with you Afua @afuahirsch 🙌🏾💜

Afua Hirsch

@afuahirsch

5 years

I’m not doing this again

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Salena Godden

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4 years

For the record: I don’t believe Boris Johnson. He has consistently proved himself false. Not just during this pandemic but throughout his career. I do not want to take risks with my life and the lives of others and throw away months of being safe. Does anyone else feel like this?

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Salena Godden

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4 years

Why are you filming refugees fleeing war, famine and atrocities? Why don't you film the billionaires in yachts, the men that profit from bombs, war and chaos? I mourn the deaths of millions caused by the greed and ineptitude of world leaders during this pandemic. Save the human.

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4 years

Sky News is following a fourth boat attempting to carry migrants across the English Channel into the UK this morning. Read more on this story here:

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Salena Godden

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5 years

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! My debut novel #MrsDeathMissesDeath will be published worldwide by @canongatebooks I'm so excited to share this news with you all today. Thank you @CrystalMMorgan @OWNITLDN @hannahknowl3s @baddabyng and all @canongatebooks #MDMD

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

5 years

. @canongatebooks pre-empts @salenagodden 's "visionary" debut novel:

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Salena Godden

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3 years

I’ve been on my own for nearly 4 weeks and this is my living room coffee table, alone and left to my own devices I turn my house into a bookshop, more beautiful books in the kitchen and bedroom too, it’s been a tough time but books are my friends, amazing books, thank you books!

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Salena Godden

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4 years

Anyone else just folded and put away a pile of clean clothes that you’re not wearing because you’re not going out and you sit on your bed in your tidy bedroom looking at clothes on hangers like ghost shapes of an old life wondering if you can have wine now as a reward...

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

5 years

Thank you @SadiqKhan absolutely all of this! “Rather than bestowing Trump with a grand platform of acceptability to the world, we should be speaking out and saying that this behaviour is unacceptable”

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5 years

History teaches us of the danger of being afraid to speak truth to power. Across the world, the far right is on the rise. Against this backdrop, London stands out as a beacon of hope. And that’s worth defending.

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Salena Godden

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4 years

Note: Making a list of black and brown writers, please include books of joy and art, science and nature, space and history, beauty and laughter. The struggle is our life, the effort to get published. Not all black literature is essays on hurt, the pain is there but also the hope

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

3 years

My father born this day, April 24 1941, here's a poem by him: 'Do not be afraid then, worry nor even Miss me overmuch. Between us, over us Longer than us both, this love. Circumstance, separating miles Or chance, but aspects of the one Insoluble thing, this love.' Paul Godden

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Salena Godden

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4 years

🎥 Some great news to share with you on this publication day! @OWNITLDN @idriselba @GDPicsUK have done a film option deal for #MrsDeathMissesDeath debut novel published today @canongatebooks now I’m gonna do some rum and dance a lot in my kitchen Xx

Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures Takes Film & TV Rights To Poet Salena Godden’s Novel ‘Mrs Death...

Elba's company has picked up rights to the novel about a young author who is visited by Death - a shapeshifting, working-class black woman.

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

Now watch struggling Artists rally round to help to raise funds for hungry kids The very same Artists Writers, Musicians that were told to retrain last week We need Art Art is community Art raises us Art saves lives Art is life Art does the work of your elected MP

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Salena Godden

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7 years

📚 #TheGoodImmigrant paperback & audiobook are released today! Please RT! Share it! Gift it! Spread it! Hear it! Read it! Thank you! 🎧

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

I prefer the original photo where Fatima isn’t alone. I imagine they are friends, two outstanding young women, striving to make excellent art, blazing a trail, breaking barriers, fulfilling their dreams and smashing the system. Be more Fatima and her friend.

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Salena Godden

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3 years

Excited bookshops are opening: This is a tweet for books, bookmakers, booksellers, booklovers, I salute you, writing books, editing, designing, reviewing and sharing books, all under lockdown, it’s been one helluva of a phenomenal effort. Books are Hope. Hope is a group project.

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Salena Godden

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6 years

Paint drying on my jacket to wear today @womensmarchlon #BringtheNoise 🙌🏾✨

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

Big chunk of Hope from Arundhati Roy today xx 🙏🏽

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4 years

Final two paragraphs of ARUNDHATI ROY’s FT essay today. It’s what we choose

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Salena Godden

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4 years

What if we said: it’s just food with family we can meet later I want everyone healthy, happy not anxious and panic shopping in a plague not wasting what little we have on plastic shit that chokes oceans turn off the adverts stop the hype count your blessings love

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

🥳 Good morning! My debut novel ‘Mrs Death Misses Death’ is published today @canongatebooks , hardback books out in bookshops, ebook and an audiobook read by the author which is me. Very emotional day for me today. Thank you to everyone everyone everyone @canongatebooks @OWNITLDN

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Salena Godden

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3 years

❤️📚 So excited talking to mum on the phone this morning, she’s planning how she will go into bookshops and say “hello please may I buy my daughters debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death!” How excited we both are, how it means so much. Thank you bookshops! #ChooseBookshops

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Salena Godden

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3 years

🥳 It’s my birthday! I share my birthday with George Michael and George Orwell. Today marks 30 years of London and poetry but just 6 months as a published novelist. It feels like I only just got started. Passion is everything! Hope is an energy! Love is love! 🎉❤️

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Salena Godden

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4 years

How it started How it’s going 1995 DIY Zine 2021 Debut Novel

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

Fatima was an ugly duckling. She had to work twice as hard as her privileged class mates. She worked two jobs and saved to study ballet. She dreams of being the lead, to be Odette in Swan Lake. She blazes a trail. Her passions and determinations are a miracle. Be more Fatima.

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Salena Godden

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9 years

Every year it's December then January. Do not detox nor sign up for a gym. January is dark, you must drink, create, dream, read good books.

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

So this is how it starts in books they burn or ban books in books that imagine a world that burns or bans books it starts with books that dare to say this is how it is or was or could be and if you read books you’ll know from books that this is how it ends

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Salena Godden

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4 years

#PublishingPaidMe All I want to say is this: I started this life aged 19 and didn’t fit in so I made my own garden. I published a book for the first time age 40. My voice has been here for you for over 25yrs. For decades publishing paid me no attention so I grew my own flowers.

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

2 months

What a strange feeling this is, feels like the moment in the film when the vampires are dead, we sit in first golden light of morning, we fought hard, we are covered in vampire guts, catch our breath, but now we must prepare to fight all the werewolves snarling in the undergrowth

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Salena Godden

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2 years

BIG NEWS: So honoured and excited to see Mrs Death Misses Death win The Indie Book Awards Fiction Award!! Thank you to all book sellers and book lovers, congratulations to all shortlisted authors, BIGlove and thanks to @booksaremybag @canongatebooks @OWNITLDN @hannahknowl3s 🧡📚

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Salena Godden

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3 years

It isn't healthy to be regularly lied to about big and important things, like murder and death, to be laughed at or gaslit about genuine concerns, valid grief and fury. It isn't good for a people as a whole, or for the heart and morale of a country to be deceived daily.

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Salena Godden

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3 years

Yeah EXACTLY this, "the faces of missing women that make the front pages – they are often white with fair hair." Read more:

Black women who go missing are neglected in a way white women aren't

We are not seen as fragile or in need of protection the way white women are, despite the fact we are made doubly vulnerable by a toxic mixture of racism and sexism.

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Salena Godden

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3 years

So I have a sweet story to share: When I was a very little girl I had a lovely school friend who I sat next to in class. She taught me to ride a bike and to swim underwater. We went to brownies and girl guides together. I always wondered what happened to her…

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Salena Godden

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4 years

Good morning. Check out this thread if you can stomach it. It looks like America had a really shitty open-mic poetry slam last night. This poem ‘human sex drug traffickers’ is outstanding bollocks. We shouldn’t laugh, but ... 😂

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4 years

"Human sex drug traffickers should not be allowed to cross our border" -- Kimberly Guilfoyle #SexDrugTraffickers

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Salena Godden

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5 years

❤️ Yes this! Thank you! This is East London, summer 2019 #fckboris @fckboris

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Salena Godden

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2 years

When this was first published and read it I felt understood. I was a kid but here was an adult eloquently voicing my teenage concerns and greatest fears, one of my biggest fears was that the people will be lied to and killed in their beds. Visionary. Rest in power! #raymondbriggs

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Salena Godden

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3 years

Well, this week has been ALOT I hope you’re ok. Please eat something, take breaks, nourish your soul, read books and stay hydrated. This dragging the world into the 21st century, smashing the patriarchy and standing up to centuries of systemic racism and sexism is thirsty work.

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Salena Godden

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5 years

Writing a book? Good. By doing this you say I invest in our future, that there will be a good future, a future where people have eyes, a future where libraries still stand, a future where reading is still our thing. Keep writing. Write a better tomorrow. Visualise it. Thank you.

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Salena Godden

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2 years

If you wept today then you're probably feeling the moon. If you wept today you are surely a poet. If you did not yet weep, damn it cry now. Look up! She is the sad and cold Snow Moon dancing with Mars in a timeless endlessness, human, you are monkey dust, weep damn you, weep...

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Salena Godden

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4 years

Ok here's me aged 20 - This photo by Olivia Rutherford, it was taken as a test shot to try to get work modelling or as an extra in films and pop videos.

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Salena Godden

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3 years

Often in TV crime shows the wife who has seen too much has to quickly marry the bad and morally corrupt man so she cannot be forced to testify against him, is this a real thing in the UK? Asking for a country and the families of over 150k dead people

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Salena Godden

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2 years

Calling for a black woman to be paraded naked through the streets and shamed reveals nothing but the truly ugly heart of the man that wrote that and the people that published it. I tweet this in solidarity and in disgust that his violent egomaniac fantasies were even printed.

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Salena Godden

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4 years

I have lovely news today! I'm excited to announce I'm now a FRSL and honoured to be included on this list among heroes and writers I love and look up to and admire. Thank you to @RSLiterature and Happy 200th Birthday! #RSL200

Royal Society of Literature

@RSLiterature

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🥳Today is our 200th birthday! We’ll be celebrating throughout the day, sharing short films featuring our new Fellows, Honorary Fellows, Vice-Presidents & Companions of Literature. Huge thanks @ALCS_UK for making our digital celebrations possible. #RSL200

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Salena Godden

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4 years

Good morning! Look at @MarcusRashford twitter account Xx

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Salena Godden

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2 years

⭐️Good morning! Fabulous news today: 'Mrs Death Misses Death' has won The Peoples Book Prize for Fiction, a prize voted for by you. Thank you so much for your votes. Congratulations to all finalists. Thank you @canongatebooks @OWNITLDN @PeoplesBkPrize #MrsDeathMissesDeath #TPBP

OWN IT!

@OWNITLDN

2 years

A well-deserved win for this years Peoples Book Prize! Voted for by the public ❤️ Big congrats to @salenagodden and her intoxicating debut novel #MrsDeathMissesDeath 🙌 Get your copy here:

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Salena Godden

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2 years

Repeat after me: It is November. Christmas is just a nice lunch. No pressure. It is still November. Christmas is a month away. It is still November. Calm down. It is lovely. November. Lovember. Now. Love. Nowvember. All is calm. All is books. Live in the now. Love. Nowvember

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Salena Godden

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9 months

💔💛💚🖤Heartbroken #RIPBenjaminZephaniah Goodbye my poetry brother, here's a tweet to send my love and condolences to our poetry community and family and friends, I feel such a huge loss, sharing some happy memories. BIGLove Xx

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Salena Godden

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3 years

Fuck I am so sorry to hear this. The only reason I watched Peaky Blinders was to gaze in wonder at Helen. In every part she gave such powerful performances, compelling art and outstanding sass, I really enjoyed watching her work, a real moxie, RIP Helen... #HelenMcCrory

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Salena Godden

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2 years

✍🏾 I signed the big book! I was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature last night - here’s a pic of the signing and also the pens, I chose Jean Rhys green fountain pen. Sending love and thanks to all fellows and @canongatebooks @OWNITLDN

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Salena Godden

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6 years

I have just arrived and seen my poem!! Wow! Wow!! Extra wow!! Thank you! @ArnolfiniArts #pessimismisforlightweights #publicpoetry #salenagodden

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Salena Godden

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4 years

Personally I’m still observing lockdown and avoiding crowds. I hope by doing this I protect my family and friends and the underfunded NHS without sufficient PPE that will care for me if I get sick. #StayHomeSaveLives

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Salena Godden

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5 years

Ok one more for #WindrushDay2019 Here’s my grandparents singing together, entertaining the troops. Grandfather was in the RAF and my Nan was a nurse. They both had music in their blood. I wish we could listen to old photographs... Get up, stand up! #Windrush 🇯🇲❤️

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Salena Godden

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3 years

Such brilliant news this morning. My debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death is on the shortlist for the #GordonBurnPrize - Congratulations to everyone. I"m blown away by this lovely news! Thank you! Woop! @NewWritingNorth @canongatebooks @OWNITLDN #mrsdeathmissesdeath

New Writing North

@NewWritingNorth

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Drum roll please... We're delighted to announce the #GordonBurnPrize 2021 shortlist! A massive congratulations to @byers90 , Doireann Ní Ghríofa, @NifMuhammad , @Jenni_Fagan , @salenagodden and Tabitha Lasley 👏 Find out more about the shortlist at

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4 years

There's only one breath between you and me and life and death It's better to wear a mask in town than wear a nurses patience down Why am I sick? you ask 'cos you never wore a mask Between you and me and life and death there is only one last breath #WearAMaskSaveALife

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Salena Godden

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2 years

I love poets. I treasure my poetry friends, old poets, young poets, rebel poets, big hearts, big dreams. I love your poetry, you decorate my days, narrate the times, sing a truth, imagine a better tomorrow. Happy National Poetry Day you beauties. Thank you. #NationalPoetryDay

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Salena Godden

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2 years

I’m 50 in June. I was born 50 years ago under big blue skies. It feels like a big door to fling open. Light on the other side. It feels like a privilege to be here. All I wanted was to write, greet each decade with new poems and books. I dreamt of this age, I’m in that dream.

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4 years

the only folk who need retraining are the Tories as its been raining scandal and failure every morning months of mix ups a red flag warning and each blunder the lives we lost the glitches and the jobs it cost save your soul nourish hearts save the human fight for the arts

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3 years

There’s no moral to this story or deep message. It is wonderful that beautiful connections we make as children might never fade. I write a lot about trauma that happened to me as a kid - But there was love and laughter, apples and snow and ferociously collecting brownie badges!

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4 years

“Because it’s not always the quiet ones you have to watch” Excerpt from an essay I wrote on suicide and the loss of my father. He was larger than life, a gifted and talented jazz musician. So many questions unanswered. We’ll always love and miss him. #SuicidePreventionDay

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4 years

My baby sis Jo in tears on FaceTime because she doesn’t understand why I won’t go to see her, I dunno how we explain this to children or people like Jo with learning difficulties, and I’m crying right now wishing I could hold her, BIGlove to the wanna hug my people people today

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4 years

🦌💛 Good morning Deer. Gorgeous photos taken by Mr Godden at dawn today Xx

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7 years

Feeling thankful for the NHS, the acts of kindness, strangers helping strangers. We are more united than the things that try to divide us.

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5 years

Here We Are Now Entertain Us we will not be numb and share images of murder we will not sensationalise headlines as though the news is made for entertainment we feel this we will not be desensitised we will not rent grief and fury and sell mourning to sell more shit

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3 years

I just found out that 'Mrs Death Misses Death' has been selected for The Peoples Book Prize for fiction, the prize is voted for by readers. Thank you so much. #TPBP Please vote for MDMD #MrsDeathMissesDeath @canongatebooks @PeoplesBkPrize @BookBrunch -

Mrs Death Misses Death | Peoples Book Prize

Mrs Death is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer ...

peoplesbookprize.com

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5 years

Today is my Dad’s dead day, the anniversary of his suicide. I felt it as soon as I woke up and all day it’s like an alarm ringing in my head. The number of suicides in the UK is escalating. We need kindness, better mental health care, therapy and support. #SaveTheNHS #VoteCorbyn

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4 years

Does the 100k death figure include suicide, domestic abuse fatalities, austerity related death, homeless and refugees? Please light a candle for those lost souls, the unseen and unaccounted for, all who died at the hands of the ineptitude of a PM who put profit before life. #100k

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I type this message into smashed glass, I shattered my phone screen, it’s weird the thing still works, I push soft thumb flesh into shards of broken glass your words are jagged splintered, fractured, broken, like the government and the climate and the truth

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2 years

⚽️ we were all lip reading Jill Scott then hahahaha 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Salena Godden

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4 years

🐺📚 So, the first small batch of proofs are in the mail, please tag me if you find a copy in your post box. What a thing! My first novel! Sharing this reaffirmation of hope with thanks @canongatebooks @hannahknowl3s and @CrystalMMorgan @OWNITLDN #mrsdeathmissesdeath 🐇❤️

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8 years

Please don't say POC are imagining things. WE TOLD YOU THERE WAS A STORM COMING and you said "not newsworthy" or "all lives matter"

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4 years

you celebrity poets are so demanding, demanding your voice be heard, your art be published and read and used as a tool to teach, to incite and inspire empathy, you demanding poets, demanding to get paid for your life labour, always so famous and demanding, you demanding poets

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I’ve always said that about poets: they have *too much power*.

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And so there we are saying hello and laughing and she says “hold your hand out” and I close my eyes and hold out my hand and she hands me the brownie badge for reading and writing “you’ve earned this one” she says and we laugh and I love it and will treasure it!

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Salena Godden

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2 years

⭐️📚BIG NEWS!! Announced today @thebookseller #FBM22 @Book_Fair Very excited to share this and tell you all that I have 3 books on the way ... Dream come true! Thank you so much @canongatebooks & @OWNITLDN Xx

Canongate bags three more from Godden

Canongate has snapped up a novel, memoir and collection of poetry by Salena Godden.

www.thebookseller.com

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2 years

⚽️❤️👏🏾 Love this picture! What a game! Congratulations legendary #Lionesses #Eurofinal #Euro22 Thanks for following tweets for my footie talk too. I loved it! Xx

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Salena Godden

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Here's a picture of my immigrant parents, taken in the late 1960's, they were trailblazers #proudchildofanimmigrant

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

🌸Happy Fathers Day Mum! I love you! My mum always had to be my mum and my dad... #FathersDay

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

5 years

We remember TM for the go home vans, for failing Windrush, Brexit, Grenfell, Yarl's Wood, for the DUP and for holding hands with Trump, for the rise in division, for drowned refugees, for hurting people with cuts, the rape clause, for the women of NI left with no autonomy. Thanks

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

Shout out to every single person that got up this morning and saw the news and then spent some valuable time writing a massive rant and then hid it or deleted it because you're so sick and tired of writing from a place of fury and reaction instead of a place of love and creation.

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

@lindsaygoldwert @juliepie76 I have a poem on this and the way wives are portrayed in film:

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

6 years

Very excited to be invited to curate an episode of Poetry Please @bbcpoetryplease @BBCRadio4 Thank you so much Roger! Just spending this afternoon making a top ten hit list of my favourite poets, it's very tricky to choose, tweet me your suggestions if you like, thank you!

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

First they came for the poetry and I did not speak up for I am not a poet, then they came for the science and I did not speak up because I am not a scientist, then they came for the maps and I did not speak up because I was lost, then they came for time and I had run out of that.

John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈

@JohnMcCullough_

4 years

Poetry no longer has to be studied as part of the English GCSE syllabus next year in new OfQual rules. Time for warning posters in school libraries about the dangerous effects of sound, rhythm and imagery. There'll be Sylvia Plath parties behind the bike-sheds before you know it.

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

SOS 🆘

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

6 years

My year was dominated by publishing this one poem. Scrolling 12 months of tweets and instagrams tagged #pessimismisforlightweights I feel despite everything, 2018 was a year of courage, resistance and love. Thank you, bold hearts, big dreamers, keep fighting the good fight! 🙌🏾💛

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

5 years

🙌🏾 BIG NEWS: So happy! My poem #pessimismisforlightweights is now on permanent display at The People’s History Museum, Manchester @PHMMcr to celebrate their 10yr anniversary! Thanks to everyone at PHM and huge thanks to @OfficeOfCraig and @RoughTradeBooks for making this happen!

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

3 years

👀📚 Dream come true to see my debut #mrsdeathmissesdeath displayed like this in the window of @Foyles thank you! Happy paperback launch day! Thank you @canongatebooks @OWNITLDN Thank you for every tweet and share. Thank you to everyone held in the pages of this book 🙏🏾💙💫

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

7 years

His mother called me a good time girl. I was a teenager, I thought a good time was a good thing. Her son gave me a good time alright. He called me darling. Later they called me prostitute forever and ever. How fast they turn, quick to betray daughters to protect the good old boys

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

If you have surplus foods and goods please consider donating to a food bank. Christmas may be cancelled but Christmas spirit isn't. Charity and kindness and love isn't cancelled. In fact feeding people and sharing all we have is a revolutionary act right now.

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

💜⭐️ Happy birthday to my beautiful mum, solstice lady, midwinter starlight. My mum is my superhero. This is one of a favourite photos of you, mum, I know you check on my Twitter sometimes and you might see this and smile. I miss you so much, I love you! Happy birthday Xx 🥳✨

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

5 years

💟 Hello Insomnia. Hot flushes. Extreme highs and lows. Shout out to all being misdiagnosed. Here’s to living with volcanic fury, passion and righteous rage. Menopause is a return to the source of your power and magic. Be kind and be patient with yourself. #WorldMenopauseDay 💪🏾

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

4 years

I am having a problem with the term philanthropist: for a modern example they call Epstein a philanthropist. I’m starting to think the word philanthropist really means a bad man who buys silence, a man who buys friends in high places and greases his way into power and wealth.

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

3 years

I'm finding I can cope and I'm much happier if I spend the time it takes to enjoy the first two cups of tea in the morning reading a book. Clearly I have been doing lockdown wrong for a year trying to keep up on here and make this calamity make sense. Thank you books.

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

3 years

✍🏾 I’m off on a writing adventure today, taking time away to finish my new books. I am going to be writer in residence here and exploring these walls and windows and floors and ceilings and gardens and skies and ghosts, if you don’t hear from me for a bit I’m in here Xx

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

3 years

Hey thanks all who voted for this it is lovely thanks no don’t be shy it is perfect I love what you’ve done with the UK it’s vintage but edgy and when you look at it all it’s so nice and there is literally nothing to protest about on sexist racist rapey nazi plague death island

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

3 years

may people mourn in peace the grief justified and a righteous fury set mother free to express this injustice this very real and scary truth we witness it we carry it under this sky we changed if one is hurt we all feel it solidarity one love sisters and mothers unite

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Salena Godden

@salenagodden

5 years

Mrs May didn’t die. She resigned. We’ve all been there. For example I quit my paper-round because it was hard and up hills and knackering. Can everyone stop talking about May with the language of loss and bereavement. The bin fire she leaves us with is out of control.

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