PLEASE NOTE: From 1st of July 2021, shipments from the UK to EU countries will be subject to Value Added Tax (VAT) charges. Orders placed through this website are shipped Delivery Duties Unpaid (DDU) and customers in the EU may have to pay import VAT (and customs duties, if payable) and a handling fee in the receiving country.

Difficult Fruit

Difficult Fruit

9781845232276
Regular price
£8.99
Sale price
£8.99
Regular price
Sold out
Unit price
per 

Difficult Fruit grapples with personal experience – with naming and claiming the ‘fruits’ of a specific journey into womanhood.

This journey is one which includes coming to terms with violence and loss, celebrating love and connection, and standing witness in the world that shaped that journey. It is a collection of poems about coming into self-knowledge – of fighting for and winning personhood as a woman in the world.

Lauren K. Alleyne is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. Her writing has been awarded the 2003 Atlantic Monthly Student Poetry Prize, the Robert Chasen Graduate Poetry Prize at Cornell, and other awards, and her poems have been published in Black Arts Quarterly and The Caribbean Writer among other journals. She is co-editor of the anthology From the Heart of Brooklyn (Vivisphere, 9781587761423), and author of Dawn in the Kaatskills (Longshore Press, 9780000100757), a chapbook.