Salena Godden
@salenagodden.bsky.social
poet & author: latest books ‘Mrs Death Misses Death' 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' 'With Love, Grief and Fury' & ‘Springfield Road’
Substack:
https://salenagodden.substack
Links:
https://buythebook.online/salena-godden
Substack:
https://salenagodden.substack
Links:
https://buythebook.online/salena-godden
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✨Thank you to all at STATUS FLO, beautiful gathering at Brighton Dome. I'm coming to the end of my paperback tour now. I'm reading poetry with Out-Spoken to raise funds for Jamaica Hurricane Relief on November 19th, please donate if you can! See you soon, BIGlove Xx
🎟️links: www.salenagodden.co.uk
🎟️links: www.salenagodden.co.uk
Reposted by Salena Godden
What are you up to this evening? If you are staying home then sign up for this online gig all for a great cause, and the line up organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social is epic: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER. Please share and donate if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
Poets Read For Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser
An online evening of poetry, raising funds for Food for the Poor and Support Jamaica to support those affected by Hurricane Melissa.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What are you up to this evening? If you are staying home then sign up for this online gig all for a great cause, and the line up organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social is epic: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER. Please share and donate if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
What are you up to this evening? If you are staying home then sign up for this online gig all for a great cause, and the line up organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social is epic: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER. Please share and donate if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
Poets Read For Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser
An online evening of poetry, raising funds for Food for the Poor and Support Jamaica to support those affected by Hurricane Melissa.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What are you up to this evening? If you are staying home then sign up for this online gig all for a great cause, and the line up organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social is epic: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER. Please share and donate if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
Reposted by Salena Godden
'I Cannot Wait To Breathe' by Salena Godden
YouTube video by Salena Godden
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Reposted by Salena Godden
“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
For anyone who needs to share a deep breath: Something new on my Substack and YouTube channels today, here's a live performance of a very timely poem 'I Cannot Wait To Breathe' recorded at Status Flo at the Brighton Dome
🎤✨https://salenagodden.substack.com/p/i-cannot-wait-to-breathe
🎤✨https://salenagodden.substack.com/p/i-cannot-wait-to-breathe
I Cannot Wait To Breathe
Live performance from Status Flo at the Brighton Dome
salenagodden.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
For anyone who needs to share a deep breath: Something new on my Substack and YouTube channels today, here's a live performance of a very timely poem 'I Cannot Wait To Breathe' recorded at Status Flo at the Brighton Dome
🎤✨https://salenagodden.substack.com/p/i-cannot-wait-to-breathe
🎤✨https://salenagodden.substack.com/p/i-cannot-wait-to-breathe
🕷️Lovely review of the BOG PEOPLE anthology came through this week: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fine...
Fine tales of folk horror
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror Edited by Hollie Starling, Chatto & Windus, £18.99HOLLIE STARLING draws on two fuzzy categories — “working-class” and “folk horror” — to c...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🕷️Lovely review of the BOG PEOPLE anthology came through this week: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fine...
✨Thank you to all at STATUS FLO, beautiful gathering at Brighton Dome. I'm coming to the end of my paperback tour now. I'm reading poetry with Out-Spoken to raise funds for Jamaica Hurricane Relief on November 19th, please donate if you can! See you soon, BIGlove Xx
🎟️links: www.salenagodden.co.uk
🎟️links: www.salenagodden.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
✨Thank you to all at STATUS FLO, beautiful gathering at Brighton Dome. I'm coming to the end of my paperback tour now. I'm reading poetry with Out-Spoken to raise funds for Jamaica Hurricane Relief on November 19th, please donate if you can! See you soon, BIGlove Xx
🎟️links: www.salenagodden.co.uk
🎟️links: www.salenagodden.co.uk
Reposted by Salena Godden
🎧 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 / 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞 📧
You can now listen to yesterday's episode in full via the Soho Radio Mixcloud page! You'll find the listen back link plus all of the content from our round-ups in our latest Substack post.
Our special guest was Iona Lee.
roaring20sradio.substack.com/p/episode-56...
You can now listen to yesterday's episode in full via the Soho Radio Mixcloud page! You'll find the listen back link plus all of the content from our round-ups in our latest Substack post.
Our special guest was Iona Lee.
roaring20sradio.substack.com/p/episode-56...
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🎧 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 / 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞 📧
You can now listen to yesterday's episode in full via the Soho Radio Mixcloud page! You'll find the listen back link plus all of the content from our round-ups in our latest Substack post.
Our special guest was Iona Lee.
roaring20sradio.substack.com/p/episode-56...
You can now listen to yesterday's episode in full via the Soho Radio Mixcloud page! You'll find the listen back link plus all of the content from our round-ups in our latest Substack post.
Our special guest was Iona Lee.
roaring20sradio.substack.com/p/episode-56...
“Godden’s greatest gift is arguably her ability to convey love, not with the passivity of platitudes but as a conviction which is actively lived; a passion with the power to eclipse even hate’s most enduring shadows. Her empathy is captivating…”
thank you!
www.northernsoul.me.uk/cabaret-for-...
thank you!
www.northernsoul.me.uk/cabaret-for-...
'fierce and tender' Cabaret For Freedom, Manchester Literature Festival
Cabaret For Freedom at Manchester Literature Festival, St John's Church, Manchester.
www.northernsoul.me.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Godden’s greatest gift is arguably her ability to convey love, not with the passivity of platitudes but as a conviction which is actively lived; a passion with the power to eclipse even hate’s most enduring shadows. Her empathy is captivating…”
thank you!
www.northernsoul.me.uk/cabaret-for-...
thank you!
www.northernsoul.me.uk/cabaret-for-...
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser:
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
Reposted by Salena Godden
The evening will be hosted by Leone Ross, with an introduction from Akala, a piano recital from Karim Kamar and readers too many characters to list but in the flyer >>
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The evening will be hosted by Leone Ross, with an introduction from Akala, a piano recital from Karim Kamar and readers too many characters to list but in the flyer >>
Reposted by Salena Godden
📚 RLF Fellows’ News – November 2025 ✍️
New books, theatre premieres & award nods, plus Collected Live in Liverpool & Birmingham, and Mosaic Monologues from Writers Mosaic.
Award nods for C.D. Rose, Gillian Allnutt, Nick Makoha, Salena Godden & Trish Cooke.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3LoP2Vc
New books, theatre premieres & award nods, plus Collected Live in Liverpool & Birmingham, and Mosaic Monologues from Writers Mosaic.
Award nods for C.D. Rose, Gillian Allnutt, Nick Makoha, Salena Godden & Trish Cooke.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3LoP2Vc
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📚 RLF Fellows’ News – November 2025 ✍️
New books, theatre premieres & award nods, plus Collected Live in Liverpool & Birmingham, and Mosaic Monologues from Writers Mosaic.
Award nods for C.D. Rose, Gillian Allnutt, Nick Makoha, Salena Godden & Trish Cooke.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3LoP2Vc
New books, theatre premieres & award nods, plus Collected Live in Liverpool & Birmingham, and Mosaic Monologues from Writers Mosaic.
Award nods for C.D. Rose, Gillian Allnutt, Nick Makoha, Salena Godden & Trish Cooke.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3LoP2Vc
💜🎤✨My next live show is STATUS FLO Monday 10th November in BRIGHTON with Aflo Poetry and Pablo Franco at the Brighton Dome Studio Theatre! 🎭 See you down there for an uplifting night of poetry and story telling by the sea. Looking forward to being back in Brighton! brightondome.org/whats-on/LmI...
STATUS FLO / Spoken Word / What's On - Brighton Dome
In November your host, AFLO. the poet, is joined by award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of mixed Jamaican-Irish heritage, Salena Godden, and a local talent yet to be revealed.
brightondome.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
💜🎤✨My next live show is STATUS FLO Monday 10th November in BRIGHTON with Aflo Poetry and Pablo Franco at the Brighton Dome Studio Theatre! 🎭 See you down there for an uplifting night of poetry and story telling by the sea. Looking forward to being back in Brighton! brightondome.org/whats-on/LmI...
Reposted by Salena Godden
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
Get your ears on this! 💜💜💜
𝘼𝙡𝙨𝙤...
Our latest Substack post revisits our pilot episode from November 2019! We were joined in the OG studio by Rookes, and we've clipped our interview with her, which includes a prediction for the 2020s.
Subscribe now, with an optional £5 plan to support us!
open.substack.com/pub/roaring2...
Our latest Substack post revisits our pilot episode from November 2019! We were joined in the OG studio by Rookes, and we've clipped our interview with her, which includes a prediction for the 2020s.
Subscribe now, with an optional £5 plan to support us!
open.substack.com/pub/roaring2...
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Get your ears on this! 💜💜💜
Reposted by Salena Godden
𝙉𝙀𝙓𝙏 𝙀𝙋𝙄𝙎𝙊𝘿𝙀 🔜
We're back on Soho Radio this Monday from 2-4pm, when we'll be joined live in the studio by Iona Lee!
Tune in at sohoradio.com or via DAB. Two hours of art, culture, books, poetry, and activism.
Co-presented by @salenagodden.bsky.social, @amahrose.bsky.social & @mattabbottpoet.com
We're back on Soho Radio this Monday from 2-4pm, when we'll be joined live in the studio by Iona Lee!
Tune in at sohoradio.com or via DAB. Two hours of art, culture, books, poetry, and activism.
Co-presented by @salenagodden.bsky.social, @amahrose.bsky.social & @mattabbottpoet.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
𝙉𝙀𝙓𝙏 𝙀𝙋𝙄𝙎𝙊𝘿𝙀 🔜
We're back on Soho Radio this Monday from 2-4pm, when we'll be joined live in the studio by Iona Lee!
Tune in at sohoradio.com or via DAB. Two hours of art, culture, books, poetry, and activism.
Co-presented by @salenagodden.bsky.social, @amahrose.bsky.social & @mattabbottpoet.com
We're back on Soho Radio this Monday from 2-4pm, when we'll be joined live in the studio by Iona Lee!
Tune in at sohoradio.com or via DAB. Two hours of art, culture, books, poetry, and activism.
Co-presented by @salenagodden.bsky.social, @amahrose.bsky.social & @mattabbottpoet.com
“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” Mamdani said. “So hear me President Trump when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us." -- www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Turn the volume up’: Mamdani invokes Trump in fiery speech that laid out plan of action
As New York City’s mayor-elect reiterated his policies, the president posted ‘And so it begins!’ on his social media
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” Mamdani said. “So hear me President Trump when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us." -- www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Salena Godden
“So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.
- New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
- New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.
- New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
- New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
Reposted by Salena Godden
#Books #Poetry
With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden A Review
Now available in paperback
canongate.co.uk/books/4921-w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Jn...
With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden A Review
Now available in paperback
canongate.co.uk/books/4921-w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Jn...
With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden A Review by Guy Thornton
YouTube video by bwthornton
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#Books #Poetry
With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden A Review
Now available in paperback
canongate.co.uk/books/4921-w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Jn...
With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden A Review
Now available in paperback
canongate.co.uk/books/4921-w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Jn...
Reposted by Salena Godden
With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected
Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected
Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
hope is a group project
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
hope is a group project
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...
Reposted by Salena Godden
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
TONIGHT Anoushka Shankar & Friends! Winter Fundraiser for Choose Love at The Union Chapel, Anita Rani, Denise Gough, Elif Shafak, Inua Ellams, Nikita Gill, Nish Kumar, Nitin Sawhney, Shappi Khorsandi, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Misan Harriman, Salena Godden & more...
unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/ano...
unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/ano...
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
TONIGHT Anoushka Shankar & Friends! Winter Fundraiser for Choose Love at The Union Chapel, Anita Rani, Denise Gough, Elif Shafak, Inua Ellams, Nikita Gill, Nish Kumar, Nitin Sawhney, Shappi Khorsandi, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Misan Harriman, Salena Godden & more...
unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/ano...
unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/ano...
Here’s a link for donations too! Thank you so much for all shares and reposts! More soon!
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BIGlove 🇯🇲❤️
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Here’s a link for donations too! Thank you so much for all shares and reposts! More soon!
BIGlove 🇯🇲❤️
BIGlove 🇯🇲❤️