or in ‘Dung Beetle Love Poem’
but also in memory: both ancestral (his maternal grandfather tendered for the building of Sydney Harbour Bridge) and aboriginal
” —Jason Reynolds
the crisis of a changing climate and the magnetic pull of place
Will Britain learn to love my children’s melanin…
Gloria by Selima Hill Becci Louise or in ‘Dung Beetle LoveWinner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2022 Selima Hills poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive and startling. All these qualities are strongly present throughout Gloria, a comprehensive selection drawn from ten formally diverse and thematically unified collections, each offering wild variations on her abiding themes: womens identities, love and loss, repression and abuse, family