An explosive debut collection from a rising young star on the UK performance circuit, exploring race, identity, love, and sexuality.

Contents:

Forty Things I Never Said 7
I Am Nobody's Nigger 9
Young, Black and Gay 11
Revolution 13
Fatherless Nation 17
Therapy 20
Paper Cuts 23
I Am Red 26
New Year 29
Ascension 31
Freedom of Love 34
Mother Tongue 36
The Flamingo 38
Smash and Grab 40
Mr Invincible 43
Key to the City 45
Without You 51
Shadow Boxer 54
Ego Extensions 57
More Than This 58
Off the Wall 59
My Love 64
Rome is Eternal 67
How Did We 70
Matters of the Heart 71
Fragmented 73
Quit Me 74
Tunnel Vision 77
Enough 79
Ghostwriter 80
Missing Persons 82
Severance 83
Second Hand 85
Lost in Time 89
Poems 93

Dean Atta: Dean Atta is a writer and performance poet. He has been commissioned to write poems for the Damilola Taylor Trust, Keats House Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Dean won the 2012 London Poetry Award and was named as one of the most influential LGBT people by the Independent on Sunday Pink List 2012. He is an ambassador for the Spirit of London Awards for Achievement through the Arts.