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Shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2023 | Longlisted for the Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize 2023
From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautifully illustrated poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger.
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These Are the Words Synopsis
Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words.
Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection Nikita gives you the words to help heal from your first breakup, to celebrate finding your family, to understand first love, to express your anger and your joy, to fight for what you believe in and to help you break some rules to be your truest self.
Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Nikita herself and featuring seasonal astrological poetry, this collection is an achingly beautiful, stunningly warm and fearless expression of truth from one of the most influential and well-known voices in modern poetry.
REMINDER FOR HEALING You do not owe anyone your forgiveness. The trees do not apologize to the wind that uproots them. The rocks do not apologize to the erosion by the sea. The stars do not apologize to the universe when they are writhing and dying out. And you are not obligated to forgive anyone but yourself.
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9781529083606 |
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18th August 2022 |
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Nikita Gill |
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Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
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Paperback |
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192 pages |
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Press Reviews
Nikita Gill Press Reviews
An empowering, heartbreaking and fierce collection that will resonate with many a reader. -- Manjeet Mann, award-winning author of Run, Rebel
perfectly paint(s) a portrait of life - Eastern Eye
the ointment to soothe the turmoil of change. - The Scotsman
an empowering collection of feminist poems teens can dip in and out of whenever they want. - The Irish Times
a great choice for any young person with an interest in poetry or creative writing - The Irish Independent
(An) empowering collection of feminist poems - The Press
a book that ignites passion, soothes turmoil and offers a warm voice of wisdom. - The Glasgow Herald
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About Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a world-wide fan-base, who has the attention of 600,000 Instagram followers for poetry collections and plays that offer a largely female readership the chance to recognise the value of their own experiences. She has given a TedX Talk, spoken at every major literary festival in the U.K., been shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award in poetry three times and has recently made her first foray into music having written for Anoushka Shankar's newest single, Sister Susannah.
She has written for or been featured in The New York Times, The Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Stylist Magazine, The Bookseller, Cosmopolitan, The Times of India, Eastern Eye and many more. Gill has written six collections of poetry, and a novel in verse which highlights Hindu mythology.
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