A collection of poetry by Andrea Waddell, a trans woman who was murdered in Brighton in October 2009, has been published with the support of her family. Sounds of the Soul: Adventures in Time by Andrea Waddell deals with the enthusiasms and complications of Andrea’s life: activism, philosophy, nature, illness, transgender issues and more.
somewhere down my ‘to do’ list
I quite fancy regurgitating
the novel inside me
no doubt stuck somewhere down my windpipe
I’d draw on my real experience;
there’d be no point in constructing imaginary hopes and fears
and implanting them in stick persons;
the only novel I’d want to write
describes my journey through this life
but when I consider the matter plainly
I can’t work out where it would need to kick off,
without perpetually regressing;
birth is such an artificial
place to start –
and it’s beyond me to determine
where it should draw to a close
for with my life in a perpetual state of unfolding
I’m yet to identify the story’s moral
The Village Market 
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