About this ebook
With beautifully illustrated poems, Honeybee is a collection of poetry that celebrates the resilience of the human heart through stages of each chapter:
navigating heritage
hurting
this body
rising and
healing
★ All royalties from this book will go towards Tommy's Charity (baby loss support and research) ★
Praise for honeybee
‘She brings footnotes to the forefront, decolonizing her heart and thoughts from those coercive frameworks that have for generations passed as common sense. With these raw and honest poems, Rideau dissects the dominant hierarchies, cultures, and caste systems that have othered and devalued her, and she reimagines a world anew that includes, encourages, and elevates her, and you, us ... the collective beehive.’
Julián Esteban Torres López, founding editor of The Nasiona, and author of Ninety-two Surgically Enhanced Mannequins: A Micro-poetry Collection
‘Every stanza bristles with love and empathy. This book isn't just a collection of wonderful poems, it's also a personal journey and a blueprint for a better world.’
Martin Grey, author of The Prettyboys of Gangster Town
‘A must-read from a fabulous up and coming poet.’
Afshan D’souza-Lodhi, author of [re:desire]
‘Through the vehicle of the brown girl experience, Angela explores the difficult questions and the relationships female and female-identifying members of the diaspora have to their culture. Firmly in the ranks of works of contemporaries like Nikesh Shukla or Rupi Kaur.’
Shawn Basheer, founder of South Asians Film, T.V and Arts Collective (S.A.F.T.A.C)
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About the author
Angela is a London based British-Indian Spoken Word Poet. Her debut poetry collection ‘honeybee’ is an exploration of trauma, identity, growing up within the South-Asian diaspora, healing and femininity.
She is also the host of a podcast called ‘Poems From My Heart’ where she enjoys amplifying the voices of other artists, poets, writers and activists to help those that have been marginalised and othered.
When she is not writing, Angela spends her time travelling the world with her husband and 2 children and teaching.
