Walk around any stately home, museum or National Trust property and you are likely to see the words please do not touch more than a few times. The irony is in most cases the sign is telling you not to touch something that was stolen from another land, something that should have never been touched in the first place. Please Do Not Touch asks important questions about these things, about the world and the lives that they have shaped. How have the ill gotten gains of colonialism shaped our society today? How does the noise of the crimes of the past reverberate into our present day soundscape?
Born and raised in Nechells, Birmingham, Casey Bailey is a writer, performer and educator. Casey released his debut full collection of 'Adjusted' in 2018 with Verve Poetry Press and has had his play 'GrimeBoy' been commissioned by the Birmingham Rep. Casey's poetry has featured in a number of anthologies and he was commissioned by the BBC to write 'The Ballad of The Peaky Blinders' in 2019. Casey has performed his poetry nationally, and internationally. Casey's contribution as a writer, as an educator and dedicated member of his community have been recognised by the Birmingham Mail's 'Birmingham Live', leading to him being named as one of Birmingham's '30 under 30' of 2018. Casey was also recognised in 2019 when he was made a Fellow of the University of Worcester.
Title: Please Do Not Touch
Author: Casey Bailey
ISBN: 9781913958053
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Publisher: Burning Eye Books
Publication Date: 2021-06-03
Number of Pages: 80
Weight: 0.1300 kg
'This is a beautifully shattering collection. How delicately it unstitches small and personal disasters on the page. How Casey flattens Birmingham and soaks our hands into its soil so we too feel it's warmth, it's grit, the seeds that may still germinate one day. Wow.' - Caleb Femi
