Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen #TSEliotPrize by the lightest of means

by the lightest of means

Her poetry transfigures that very private suffering into art that has a universal resonance

secretive: in the morning

unseasonable love

Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen #TSEliotPrize by the lightest of means'We knew that black and brown bodies, working class voices, women's voices, did not have a space where they could be heard and so this writing collective was a necessary and political act' In the early years of the new millennium, poets Malika Booker and Roger Robinson saw the need for a space for writers outside of the establishment to grow, improve, discuss and learn. One Friday night, Malika offered her Brixton kitchen table as a meeting place. And