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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I Cannot Wait To Breathe
Live performance from Status Flo at the Brighton Dome
salenagodden.substack.com
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
Reposted by Salena Godden
Time flies when you're doing all sorts of things you weren't planning to.
Later than planned, more poetry! On the top shelf you can see new arrivals from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - The Footing collection, Steve Ely, Mark Goodwin, Angelina D'Roza and others. Shelves need some re-order... 1/2
Later than planned, more poetry! On the top shelf you can see new arrivals from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - The Footing collection, Steve Ely, Mark Goodwin, Angelina D'Roza and others. Shelves need some re-order... 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Time flies when you're doing all sorts of things you weren't planning to.
Later than planned, more poetry! On the top shelf you can see new arrivals from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - The Footing collection, Steve Ely, Mark Goodwin, Angelina D'Roza and others. Shelves need some re-order... 1/2
Later than planned, more poetry! On the top shelf you can see new arrivals from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - The Footing collection, Steve Ely, Mark Goodwin, Angelina D'Roza and others. Shelves need some re-order... 1/2
Ahh thank you @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social Xx
It’s been a wonderful five weeks.
🍂 To all our amazing speakers, our thanks for wonderful workshops, enthusiastic discussions and engaging sessions.
🍂 Thank you to you, our writers. We hope you enjoyed the last few weeks, that there were highlights and inspiring nuggets for you to take away
🍂 To all our amazing speakers, our thanks for wonderful workshops, enthusiastic discussions and engaging sessions.
🍂 Thank you to you, our writers. We hope you enjoyed the last few weeks, that there were highlights and inspiring nuggets for you to take away
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Ahh thank you @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social Xx
🙌🏾💛 LAST CHANCE TO ENTER RAFFLE & WIN INCREDIBLE PRIZES & SUPPORT RCK! Refugee Community Kitchen serve nutritious food without judgement to those fleeing war, poverty, persecution and climate change and living in Northern France and the UK. Please repost. Thank you! raffall.com/400775/enter...
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🙌🏾💛 LAST CHANCE TO ENTER RAFFLE & WIN INCREDIBLE PRIZES & SUPPORT RCK! Refugee Community Kitchen serve nutritious food without judgement to those fleeing war, poverty, persecution and climate change and living in Northern France and the UK. Please repost. Thank you! raffall.com/400775/enter...
Reposted by Salena Godden
There's a lot of good things worth bidding for here, in the #creativesforsudan auction, please take a look and help fundraising for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher. @yassmin.bsky.social, via @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
There's a lot of good things worth bidding for here, in the #creativesforsudan auction, please take a look and help fundraising for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher. @yassmin.bsky.social, via @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
✨Last gig of this autumn tour tonight! Words On Wax: Poetry & Vinyl Listening session hosted by Repeat Beat Poet & Salena Godden - Looking forward to chatting about poetry and vinyl and the making of LIVEwire. Come along, Mason & Frith, Westbourne Park, 7.30-9.30pm - mason-fifth.com/event/words-...
Words On Wax: Poetry & Vinyl Listening session Hosted by Repeat Beat Poet & & Salena Godden
mason-fifth.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
✨Last gig of this autumn tour tonight! Words On Wax: Poetry & Vinyl Listening session hosted by Repeat Beat Poet & Salena Godden - Looking forward to chatting about poetry and vinyl and the making of LIVEwire. Come along, Mason & Frith, Westbourne Park, 7.30-9.30pm - mason-fifth.com/event/words-...
Reposted by Salena Godden
This week in the poetry blogs w/ @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 47
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is such a generous review, thank you for sharing your thoughts, thank you SO much Paul! Xx @paulwritespoems.bsky.social
This week on The Book Bag, I am sharing my thoughts on With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden.
There are tender moments, fierce moments, defiant moments. A title that whispers and shouts. In the top 5 books, I’ve read this year.
Plus news, opps and the playlist.
There are tender moments, fierce moments, defiant moments. A title that whispers and shouts. In the top 5 books, I’ve read this year.
Plus news, opps and the playlist.
The Book Bag: With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden
Welcome back to The Book Bag. I hope you’ve had a poetic week. I’ve had quite the week. On Sunday, I popped into Barter Books in Alnwick to drop in some books, (I ended up buying more than I left) then we went for a walk along Alnmouth Beach where I tripped over some jetty railings and landed knee and face first. My shin currently has a bruise the shape of Italy. The walk was worth it though because I got this photo of the North Sea with Coquet Island lit up by a soft November sun in the distance.
paulwritespoems.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is such a generous review, thank you for sharing your thoughts, thank you SO much Paul! Xx @paulwritespoems.bsky.social
Reposted by Salena Godden
You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry
melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk
Reposted by Salena Godden
Oooo! Come and celebrate NPF's 10th year!
🙌🏾💚 This weekend I am in sunny Nottingham for a BIG gig sharing the stage with my poetry family, Henry Normal, Joelle Taylor and Lemn Sissay! What a line up! Grab ticket’s now, it’s gonna be a glorious evening, Saturday night, Nottingham Poetry Festival - nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/notti...
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Oooo! Come and celebrate NPF's 10th year!
🙌🏾💚 This weekend I am in sunny Nottingham for a BIG gig sharing the stage with my poetry family, Henry Normal, Joelle Taylor and Lemn Sissay! What a line up! Grab ticket’s now, it’s gonna be a glorious evening, Saturday night, Nottingham Poetry Festival - nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/notti...
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🙌🏾💚 This weekend I am in sunny Nottingham for a BIG gig sharing the stage with my poetry family, Henry Normal, Joelle Taylor and Lemn Sissay! What a line up! Grab ticket’s now, it’s gonna be a glorious evening, Saturday night, Nottingham Poetry Festival - nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/notti...
❤️✨ Calling the coven! I am going to be in Manningtree this evening, sharing poetry at the magic Manningtree Arts, love this place, a celebration of books and community, local to Manningtree, see you tonight! Xx
www.manningtreearts.com/event-detail...
www.manningtreearts.com/event-detail...
Salena Godden, performs | Manningtree Arts
Experience an evening with poet and performer Salena Godden, performing selections from With Grief, Love and Fury. Through powerful, evocative performance, she explores identity, activism, love, and r...
www.manningtreearts.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
❤️✨ Calling the coven! I am going to be in Manningtree this evening, sharing poetry at the magic Manningtree Arts, love this place, a celebration of books and community, local to Manningtree, see you tonight! Xx
www.manningtreearts.com/event-detail...
www.manningtreearts.com/event-detail...
🇯🇲🙌🏾 Thank you to all who joined us online last night to raise funds for Jamaica, beautiful gathering of poetry and music and community and connection, loved it, love you, @outspokenpress.bsky.social here’s to more of this good stuff soon! BIGlove Xx
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 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🇯🇲🙌🏾 Thank you to all who joined us online last night to raise funds for Jamaica, beautiful gathering of poetry and music and community and connection, loved it, love you, @outspokenpress.bsky.social here’s to more of this good stuff soon! BIGlove Xx
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...