Sea The Poet

Black Cotton

The Swagger of Dorothy Gale & Other Filthy Ways to Strut

The Skin Under My Wool

Black Cotton

In detangling intergenerational trauma, Black Cotton softens the damage caused by internalised oppression and exposes the shame of normative whiteness. In its styled linguistic verve, it takes the reader by the short and curlies, with an unflinching and uncompromising effort to illuminate and critique how we mistreat each other and ourselves. Dangerously vulnerable like wisps of afro-textured hair, these poems shed strands of truth for any diligent reader who combs these unruly pages.

The Swagger of Dorothy Gale & Other Filthy Ways to Strut

A visceral and sonic world of teeth and tornadoes exploring a muddied version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz fantasy. Dorothy is reimagined as a girl with “some grit in her teeth” examining “marvelous gray ghosts in the heartland”. Satirical and poignant with narratives that romp and strut across the lines, this collection startles and swirls contemporary issues of race, equality, and place in the dusty plains of Kansas, seeking to understand the real meaning of “there’s no place like home.”

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