A FLY Girl’s Guide to UniversityToni Morrison once said, If theres a book you want to read, but it hasnt been written yet, then you must write it. In 2016 four friends wrote the book they wish theyd had as 18 year old women of colour going to study in the elite academic institution of Cambridge University. And what a book! Wonderful, fiery, radical and brave it uses multiple voices and forms such as memoir, polemic, poetry, critical approaches to document their experiences as women

or submissive

“All of these poems feel as if they had to be written

the poets featured here often seem to riff around several themes that are associated with London itself: dislocation

through the eyes of a recovering heroin addict and artist

Hani and Mawlawi among them) from the sixteenth century to the present day

who died in 2007

sing to the land

many of whom had welcomed his election believing that this son of a shoemaker could be easily manipulated

Adam and Eleanor come to tell the stories of who they are and what ails them

Christine Evans

Her pamphlet Low-Tide Lottery was published by Salt in 2011

an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover