How to Wear a Skin
Louisa Adjoa Parker’s latest collection is an exploration of identity. Mostly set in South West England, Parker explores themes including place, race, friendship, motherhood, love, and loss, as well as what’s happening in society today. She takes inspiration from her own story and the imagined stories of others:- a boy at a train station; a woman with a tattoo and weaves them together in her quest to understand our place in a beautiful, yet fractured world...
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“How to Wear a Skin asks, what does it mean to grow up mixed-race in a rural English town? As women, how do we raise our children in a hostile environment? Poignant, direct and politically articulate, Louisa Adjoa Parker is that rare poet who writes with simple, bell-like clarity, yet manages to capture the delicate nuance of the complexity around identity and place.”
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Published 2019 by Indigo Dreams
ISBN 978-1-910834985
£9.99 + P&P UK