Shortlisted for the CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) 2021
Nikita Gill brings together exciting new poets, all well known to poetry audiences but many making their first appearance in print; the judges hail this as a book to excite young people about all the potential of poetry, curated with skill and passion.
Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene.
Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known and emerging talent from all walks of life where every style of poetry has a home.
With poets such as Raymond Antrobus, Sophia Thakur and Dean Atta guest starring alongside up-and-coming poets, this is the perfect introduction to the world of modern poetry. Each poet will introduce their poem, tell you a little bit about themselves and give you a tip for preparing brilliant performance poetry.
SLAM was one of the best poetry collections I've read in a long time. With some poems leaving me in tears and others imparting feelings of joy, these poets have done an incredible job at showing why vulnerability can help us connect and empower. It serves as a beautiful introduction to anyone wanting to explore the spoken word poetry in its written form. -- Jaspreet Kaur, award-winning poet and author of Brown Girl Like Me
A life-affirming and transformative collection, curated by a huge talent -- Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars
Author
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.
It's time to reclaim poetry. Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM!
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-18 years old
SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This features in the following genres: Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations, Gritty Reads, Funny, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Stories in Verse, Poetry Books for Children, Children’s / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals, Featured Books for 13+ readers
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SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This was written by Nikita Gill and published by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This has 160 pages
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