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These Are the Words by Nikita Gill
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These Are the Words

Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice

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Narrator Nikita Gill

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Length 2 hours 14 minutes
Language English
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From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the Words: an empowering, feminist and beautiful poetry collection exploring all the things Nikita wished someone had told her when she was younger.

Reclaim your agency. Discover your power. Find the words.

Taking you on a journey through the seasons of the soul, in this collection Nikita gives you the words to help heal from your first breakup, to celebrate finding your family, to understand first love, to express your anger and your joy, to fight for what you believe in and to help you break some rules to be your truest self.

Read by Nikita herself and featuring seasonal astrological poetry, this collection is an achingly beautiful, stunningly warm and fearless expression of truth from one of the most influential and well-known voices in modern poetry.

REMINDER FOR HEALING
You do not owe anyone your forgiveness.
The trees do not apologize to the wind that uproots them.
The rocks do not apologize to the erosion by the sea.
The stars do not apologize to the universe
when they are writhing and dying out.
And you are not obligated to forgive anyone
but yourself.

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published five collections of poetry: Your Soul Is A River, Your Heart is the Sea, Wild Embers Fierce Fairytales and Great Goddesses.

She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! and a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published on National Poetry Day 2020.

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the south of England. She has published five collections of poetry: Your Soul Is A River, Your Heart is the Sea, Wild Embers Fierce Fairytales and Great Goddesses.

She is the editor of the poetry anthology SLAM! and a novel in verse called The Girl and Goddess was published on National Poetry Day 2020.

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the ointment to soothe the turmoil of change. an empowering collection of feminist poems teens can dip in and out of whenever they want. a great choice for any young person with an interest in poetry or creative writing (An) empowering collection of feminist poems a book that ignites passion, soothes turmoil and offers a warm voice of wisdom. An empowering, heartbreaking and fierce collection that will resonate with many a reader. perfectly paint(s) a portrait of life Expand reviews
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