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These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions

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This collection blurs the borders between languages

The questions here of how to create meaning from solitude and silence do not rely on any facile premade identities or autobiographical intimacies

Surge istanbul These poems use genres ofJay Bernard Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in which thirteen young black people were killed. Dubbed the 'New Cross Massacre', the fire was initially believed to be a racist attack, and the indifference with which the tragedy was met by the state triggered a new era of race