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Malika Booker

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Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. Her pamphlet, Breadfruit, was published by flipped eye in 2007, and her Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize-winning collection, Pepper Seed, followed in 2013 from Peepal Tree. She has written for the stage and radio. She was the first Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Books by Malika Booker

Penguin Modern Poets 3

Moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict

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