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Before I Am Rendered Invisible

Resistance from the Margins

Ros Martin author

Format:Book

Publisher:Arkbound

Published:18th Oct '22

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Before I Am Rendered Invisible cover

In this inspirational volume of spoken word, social commentary, play, essay and memoir, Ros Martin peels apart the onion layers of our deeply fragmented society. By presenting the author’s personal journey, the book throws a harrowing spotlight on issues behind racial inequality. It achieves what so many other titles neglect or fail to do: rendering visible the lives of the otherwise unnoticed or stereotyped black woman, man and lowly other. Pushing out from the margins, the author writes with a passion to engage readers in issues that continue to impact those in ethnically diverse communities and other marginalised backgrounds. Every passage rings with the call for social justice and equal empowerment, whilst celebrating lives of struggle in creativity, resistance and survival.

“Ros' words are unassuming on the surface, but a prolific reflection of the diasporic and the displaced. This bard tells multiple stories in a simple song. A quilt of transcendental memories.” - Femi Morgan, Writer and Editor

ISBN: 9781912092468

Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 21mm

Weight: 418g

344 pages