The Girl Who Forgets How To Walk Izz al-Din al-Tazi

The Girl Who Forgets How To Walk Izz al-Din al-TaziWe never speak of it, but here we know the land cant be trusted The debut book from Cumbrian poet Kate Davis tells a personal narrative of the contraction of polio as a young girl, her subsequent disability and slow rehabilitation. A book of things known and not known, of untrustworthy ground and unsteady bodies, The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk finds comfort in the ancient limestone of her home county as she teaches herself to move again along its

She is a frequent guest at literary festivals throughout the world

the narrator is seen as a ‘Paki’ by the English

I’ve told Jack that I’d like to study philosophy

Lavishly illustrated with many rare or previously unpublished photos

when Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman stepped into the roles

rural Indian family

Marianne Moore

together with two poems from each of the winners in the 2008/9 Book & Pamphlet Competition

published by Five Leaves

their skirts

the bones of the dead and

Conrad Noël and Christopher Caudwell