Crimson Stain

“Searing poems, a mind questing, navigating amongst the flotsam and jetsam of urban existence, capitalism, wars, the slave trade, death, sweat, sex, proclamations and ripostes—Dee Allen’s collection is in dialogue with history, with current justice and injustice, with other writers and thinkers, taking as its keystone King’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’. Here are lyrics that lay wounds bare, songs of passionate tenderness, verses with the force of slogans, driven throughout by a conviction of our fundamental common humanity.”

—Dr. Amina Alyal, poet, host of the online open mic Wordspace, senior lecturer and programme leader for English & Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University—Leeds, U.K.