Overview

the heart is a holding is a visceral journey through birth, life and death cycles across personal, intergenerational and ancestral time. Moving through landscapes of spirituality, earth futurity and memory it is a calling to embody the current moment through the ever present hauntings of social-climate injustices and apocalyptic reality. Lateisha seeks healing through the lens of survivorship and legacy. As transformation. As the gathering of love, holding and dignity for Black mothers, earthworkers and care-givers beyond gendering, beyond racialisation, beyond this time. Weaving life-giving reflections, love letters and funeral rites together as imprints of belonging. Expressing multidimensional ways of being, across the realms of Blackness, queerness, disability and working-class immigrant and diasporic experience as conduits to call in the powers of lineage, survivorship and purpose.

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Lateisha's voice is sacred to our time-conjuring vocabularies that hold heart, transformation, and full-bodied feeling. Their words pulse with ancestral life, building luminous architectures of thought that stretch beyond the page. These poems are urgent instructions for how to dream-and to live otherwise.' Sanah Ahsan 'These poems move like the ocean they often reference: tidal, boundless, fl owing us through dimensions, exploding time.They honour hidden stories with tenderness and ferocity in equal measure, inviting the reader to breathe, dream, reclaim life and death and all in-between and beyond. They sing an incantation toward courage and becoming.' Jasmine Cooray 'An incredible collection of poems that begins with a poet's To-Do List, which becomes the muscle and heart of a life's intention and care, until the book ends with the completed list. I love and admire this brilliant and unique book.' CAConrad 'Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson is a poet of revision, remix and renewal, a summoner of Dub, sound, lyric and narrative poetics. This work is a gift from the gifted.' Raymond Antrobus 'These are poems unafraid of facing the world, knowing well that to do so is always to face oneself. Lovelace-Hanson is a poet of deep feeling and fearlessness.' Victoria Adukwei Bulley 'the heart is a holding is a therapeutic making its way toward abolition. The offer is not therapy as we currently know it, but the hold of poetics daring us to cum closer, practice intimacy, and build our capacity for revolutionary love.' Foluke Taylor

Author Information

Born in London to Jamaican parents, Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, nature practitioner, social justice facilitator and somatic therapist. Their writing has been shared across the UK and internationally, including with Montez Press and Radio, V&A Museum, Bethlem Gallery, Camden Art Centre, Queer Ecologies Festival, Free Word, Wort Journal, Skew: Black Embodiment, ]performance s p a c e[, Artsadmin’s Apocalypse Reading Room, resting up collective, Southbank Centre, The Albany and For Books’ Sake. Lateisha’s plays include A Tree, S/He Breathe/S, well de memory came and De Original Sound, with work produced by Raze Collective and Stanley Arts. Lateisha’s film The Gift - was selected for LADA Screens. They are a Roundhouse and Hammer & Tongue poetry slam finalist, and an alumnus of Obsidian Foundation, Apples and Snakes’ Writing Room and Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab.

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