This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland Toby Martinez de las Rivas A nomad from a Jamaican

A nomad from a Jamaican family

  Above all

between us and beyond us

“Richard Lambert has the true poet’s gift for transcending the commonplace…”  John Mole

'makes the language of his poetry an event in itself'

This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland Toby Martinez de las Rivas A nomad from a JamaicanPublished 19th June 2025. How do we maintain connection in times of disruption? This Is How I Fight by Rosie Garland interrogates gods, beasts and monsters, but not to hammer down simplistic answers. Through a queer perspective, poems shift between human and other, exploring where we might find the courage needed to forge a way through the world, one word in front of the other, proposing kindness as a radical act.