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Call Us What We Carry

"A beautiful, powerful and lyrical anthology of poems by the incredible inaugural presidential poet Amanda Gorman"

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In 2021, Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem on the day Joe Biden became President and became about as famous as a poet can be. This poetry collection is the follow up to that award-winning

The Hill We Climb she delivered that day which received critical acclaim and international recognition. She was a ray of sunshine in her yellow suit. I was spellbound, and I’ll be honest, frantically googling her to find out more about her.

On the cover of Call Us What We Carry Malala Yousafzai says: "this is a book of poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it, to read it all at once and then immediately read it again." And I couldn’t agree more.

Call Us What We Carry is dedicated to all of us "both hurting and healing who choose to carry on". It features 70 poems which talk about the collective grief of a global pandemic as well as touching upon the themes of race, identity, grief. The book closes with The Hill We Climb.

The poems enclosed within are hopeful. They are powerful. They are beautiful. They are honest. It’s all so powerfully and beautifully structured and cleverly presented and her poems feature wonderful wordplay. 

They shout out to be read aloud. And I found myself doing just that during the several times I have already read it.

Gorman revisits history throughout the book, speaking about living through the pandemic and linking it back to historical times. Referring back to the inspirations for the poetry. It feels very intimate whilst so all-encompassing and so very timely. Of now.

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