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Join us for the Leeds launch of Use the Words You Have by Kimberly Campanello, in conversation with award-winning poet Jason Allen-Paisant.

A striking debut novel and literary romance like no other, Kimberly Campanello’s Use the Words You Have unfurls over a long, hot Breton summer as American student K’s love affair with an older local ignites her self-actualisation as a woman and a writer.

‘Read it like you’d eat a melting ice cream.’ — Daisy Hildyard

‘The restraint, clarity and precision of the writing is faultless.’ — Joanna Walsh

‘This book is a sensory experience, saturated in sun and salt water, drenched in heat and longing.’ — Jessica Andrews

Kimberly Campanello’s publications include MOTHERBABYHOME, sorry that you were not moved and (S)worn State(s). She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. Her latest poetry collection An Interesting Detail is published by Bloomsbury Poetry. Use the Words You Have is her first novel.