OWN IT! is very excited to be publishing a ground breaking book of memoirs called Moments of Significance by poet, rapper and activist Shauna O’ Briain professionally known as MC Angel.
It’s a non-linear narrative packed with poetry, prose, fragments of memories and mediations on life, philosophy and politics from an uncompromising voice.Told through her personal experiences of growing up on an inner-city London council estate as a white working class Queer woman, Moments of Significance is an exploration of society and the political told through a very personal collage of experiences.
With accounts from Shauna’s childhood poverty to the devastating family revelation in Ireland; being bullied on her estate for being a lesbian to finding Buddhism, coping with the death of her mother to piecing together an identity through hip hop, poetry and art, Shauna reinvents the way memoirs are written and through this collection of memories reveals layers of herself to slowly build a unique relationship with the reader.
Publisher Crystal Mahey-Morgan said “More than a memoir, Moments of Significance is an exploration of being human and finding a place in the world. Of being ripped apart by circumstance and finding a way to piece yourself together. It takes us to the depths of despair but also shows us the strength of hope and how the the arts has the power not only to change lives but also to save them. It’s a book of compassion and humanity”.
Moments of Significance will be published in March 2018 in Hardback and eBook.
