Radical Normalisation

Celia Sorhaindo

ISBN 9781800172395

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 24th November 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 80pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE DCF Poetry

• Powerful and engrossing debut collection from Dominica-born poet Celia Sorhaindo

• Her chapbook Guabancex was longlisted for the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

• Poses the question: After being forged by life’s trials, what does healing look like and what does it take to be(come) or remain radically ourselves?

• Opens up the ‘taboo’ topic of mental health and neurodiversity for conversation with courage and humour

• Pushes against societies’ defined edges of what a person with a ‘normal’ mind is supposed to look, act and sound like

About The Author

Celia A. Sorhaindo was born in The Commonwealth of Dominica. She migrated with her family to England in 1976, when she was 8 years old, returning home in 2005. Her poems have been published in several Caribbean journals, Rattle magazine, Mslexia, Wasafiri, Anomaly, and Magma Poetry. She is co-compiler of Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return, published by Papillote Press and her first poetry chapbook, Guabancex, longlisted for the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, was published in February 2020, also by Papillote Press.

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