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    These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice
    These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice
    These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice
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    These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice

    Written by Nikita Gill

    Narrated by Nikita Gill

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateAug 18, 2022
    ISBN9781529083613
    These Are the Words: Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice
    Author

    Nikita Gill

    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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