Minisode- Turning pain into poetry with Tiannah Malika

TW: This episode contains discussion around themes of infant & pregnancy loss/ stillbirth and grief. Welcome back Bookends! Today we have a powerful & important minisode for you, we were joined by American poet, artist and filmmaker Tiannah Malika (also known as Spike Tee) to chat about her debut collection 'Gray Skies Turned To Sonshine', a book of art and poetry exploring her experiences of stillbirth and grief. Aswell as listening to some extracts of Tiannah's work we chat about why these topics are still taboo, the importance of community in grief, creating art for change and the experience of turning her pain into her beautiful poetry. We absolutely loved chatting with Tiannah and we hope you enjoy sharing in her wonderful energy as much as we did. To buy Tiannah's collection: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skies-Turned-Sonshine-Tiannah-Malika/dp/B0BV49GCTC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LBAFIEVOKY1O&keywords=gray+skies+turned+to+sonshine&qid=1684449154&sprefix=gray+skies+turned+to+sonshi%2Caps%2C442&sr=8-1To follow Tiannah: https://www.instagram.com/lovetiannah/As always please do rate, review & subscribe so we can reach more listeners and if you'd like to give us a follow you can do so @apairofbookendspod on Instagram and @apairofbookends on Twitter and Tik Tok. Until next time, happy reading!