Daughter Wound, by Nkateko Masinga

Daughter Wound is a collection of 15 poems exploring a young, Black, South African woman’s negotiation of intimate relationships: sexual, familial and political. Includes ‘self-portrait in utopia’, shortlisted for the 2024 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry.

Nkateko Masinga is an award-winning writer and scholar. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s 2021 International Writing Program, she was a 2019 Fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency, a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow and a Golden Key Scholar.

The cover design features ‘Kin’, a painting by UK artist Anna Ilsley, which was commissioned especially for this collection. Ilsley’s work challenges the construct of the male gaze and offers a feminist disruption of patriarchal images.

32 pages, eco-print paperback. Printed in Suffolk using vegetable inks on 100% UK recycled paper with glue-free thread binding.

Listen to Nkateko reading one of the poems in this collection: ‘My lover pulls me off the train tracks’.

See nkatekomasinga.com

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