Released 31st March, 2025 // 978-1-916938-86-1 // 56 pages // RRP: £11.99
 
It begins with Or because it is a call to choose. Is this ‘home’ doomed or can it be saved by one’s actions as the word Wyrd means. Your fate is in your hands. Choose, you English, to free yourself from the yoke of monarchical government for justice and equality. Decolonise yourselves as your colonies have gained their freedom from your royal empresses/oppressors. It’s all in the details---the angry children, the hungry parents, the lack of heat, the inadequate housing, the overpriced goods---all within the system of keeping The Wealthy wealthy and The Poor poor. Leap! Do something.
 
ABOUT Laskhmi Gill:
Lakshmi Gill is a writer, artist, and educator with accumulated awards, grants, publications, exhibits, archived sound recordings, translations, and work used in secondary and university curriculum and international research. Lakshmi has published extensively in Canadian and world literature. She is one of the two women poets (along with Dorothy Livesay) who founded the League of Canadian Poets in 1966. A Punjabi Sikh/Spanish-Filipina writer, she lives on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia. Current member of The Writers’ Union of Canada.