In this episode, Claire chats to poet Ebony Gilbert about her fantastic full-length collection This Skin I´m In , and her gorgeous illustrated children´s book Seeing With My Heart. Ebony also reads her poem from the anthology Kaleidoscopic Minds. Claire will be chatting to the editors of this anthology in a forthcoming episode of the podcast.
Ebony is a doula and poet from East London whose first collection ‘This Skin I’m In’ was published by Bloodmoon Poetry Press. She is a special needs mum who has been widely anthologised since publishing her first poem only three years ago.
’The darkly raw insides of a woman standing beyond naked, Ebony writes with a kind of sincerity that hurts and heals. Her poetry is an excavation of the body and mind, a scratching of the skin to expose the emotions we conceal from the world and ourselves. Her blend of edginess and vulnerability delivers a delicate crack to the sternum where she shines a light on the beating heart beneath. Ebony writes what she feels. Her poems are selfies. Unprocessed. No makeup. No filter.’
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