🧡🔥 ‘The Fire People’ edited by @sissaylemn won the poetry prize at The Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2022 last night! Thank you to all the readers who voted for us #BAMB @booksaremybag and thanks to @canongatebooks too! 🧡🔥 It is amazing to be part of this trailblazing book of black British poetry. Thanks to Lemn, this 1990’s book was the first time I was published and saw my work in a real book and it means so much to me and so many others who also were published for the first time in here back in the day. Golden days. 🧡🔥 Sending BIG love to ‘The Fire People’ family and BIG love to the powerful next generation ‘More Fiya’ poets and their editor Kayo! BIGlove and congratulations to @shon.faye @junodawson @louiestowell who scooped up their wins with their brilliant books too, stunning evening, massive congratulations also to @nadiashireendraws @kitdewaal and @andrewpoetry @maryjeanchan and all other authors and their beautiful books too. Happy times! Congratulations! #BAMBReadersAwards #thefirepeople #morefiya #canongatebooks #mrsdeathmissesdeath #salenagodden #lemnsissay #poetsofig #poetrycommunity