Welcome to Halfman, Halfbook for my stop on the Blog Tour for (Un)interrupted Tongues by Dal Kular and published by Fly on the Wall Press. (And a day late because of other stuff…)
About the Book
(un)interrupted tongues unfolds Kular’s creative journey and life as a working-class woman of colour. Written and created intuitively, Kular seeks to unravel the past, in order to understand the present and to heal. Here, unbelonging is power. These poems are love letters to the reader, to never give up on creative dreams.
About the Author
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Dal Kular is a Sheffield-born and based writer of Punjabi/Sikh heritage. She is a facilitator, tutor and mentor specialising in creative writing arts for healing. (un)interrupted tongues unfolds Kular’s creative journey and life as a working-class woman of colour. Written and created intuitively, Kular seeks to unravel the past, in order to understand the present and to heal.
My Review
Some people seek acceptance and power through membership and belonging. Dal Kular is not like that, rather she draws power from unbelonging. The poems in this collection are written from a very personal perspective, drawing deep from her Punjabi heritage.
Using the past to explain the present is a theme that runs all the way through this collection, but the past is not there to be seen through rose-tinted spectacles. She uses it through these poems to channel her anger into a way to heal from those injustices.
tell me new stories – flood
the urban lies. I prefer
to be formed elemental –
Stand earth stacked,
wind hacked, salt slapped
with the old Wo-man of Hoy.
It is an interesting collection that I ended up reading a couple of times through in the end. To say it is unconventional is an understatement, the form and layout of the poems is very different from any other collection that I have read recently, and the choice of words in some of the poems demonstrate just how she is carving her own path with prose. If you want to read a very different collection of poems from a working class perspective then I can recommend this.
Three Favourite Poems
I had a dream once
2019 | Orkney
I knew | | 2016
Don’t forget to visit the other blogs on the blog tour
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My thanks to Isabelle from Fly on the Wall Press for the copy of the book to read.
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