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The third collection from firebrand poet, essayist and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf whose volumes Bittersweet and Kin introduced a generation of readers to Black British Poets in the Nineties
'A true writer. Vulnerable, hilarious and wise' WARSAN SHIRE
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A disenchanted walk on foot through the afterlives of colonialism, Unsafe illuminates the effects of gentrification on those who live at its sharp end.
Situated in the midst of a reckoning with the colonial past that has shaped the UK and its ally the US, Unsafe pulls us into the processes of gentrification, police brutality and class division with an immediacy that makes them impossible to ignore. An urgent contribution to the decolonial project, drawing on the work of John Clare, blending tradition and inheritance with originality and innovation in equal measure as a call-to-arms for the twenty-first century.
A moving, critical and fiercely intelligent epic weaving together poetry, documentary and images, Unsafe is a testimony to the remaining spaces we can call free, an interrogation of what it means to be a citizen, corporeality and enclosure – and a rallying cry for minoritised people everywhere.
Product details
| Published | 12 Feb 2026 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 96 |
| ISBN | 9781526666994 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Poetry |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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