Jay Bernard
Jay Bernard is a British non-binary poet, writer, and artist from London, best known for the collection Surge (2019), developed from research into the 1981 New Cross Fire; they won the Ted Hughes Award in 2017 for the performance work Surge: Side A.
Books
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1. Surge
A searing poetry collection that excavates the legacy of the 1981 New Cross Fire and its aftermath, braiding archival fragments, testimony, and contemporary witness into a chorus of grief, rage, and resistance. Moving between past and present and guided by a queer, diasporic sensibility, the poems conjure the voices of the dead and the living to interrogate state violence, media erasure, and community solidarity. The result is an urgent act of remembrance that transforms history into a living, haunting call for justice.
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