Authors Bio

Naz Knight was born, raised and made in Luton and is first-generation British-born Caribbean. Before writing biographical fiction, Naz founded the Queen’s award-winning NINE RED  Presents…(CIC) that responds to the Luton community’s needs to bring about social change and positively impact people’s lives.

Naz published her first book in 2016 “Butterfly Drinks Crocodile Tears” a collection of Art, Prose and Poetry with a forward written by Dr Shaun Wallace; Barrister and a “chaser” on ITV’s “The Chase”.   As a child, Naz said that “(she) Never chose to write, words chose me to be their writer,” describing herself as a word mechanic. 

Naz is an interdisciplinary artist, whose practice comprises of the exploration of the contrasting yet interconnected elements of light, projection, sound and movement to transform and connect people and spaces, using poetry that delivers messages across all levels of awareness. 

Find out more about Naz Knight at wordschoseme.com and Nine Red at nineredpresents.org.uk

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Why This Book?

Part of the Collateral Beauty Series (CBS) “Poetry E.motion: Collateral Beauty” is CBS’s prose and poetry with journey guide.

It’s called Poetry E.motion, with the “E” standing for energy in emotion and exploring the importance of intuition and intellect and encourages the audience to “Own Your Own Mind”.

We are Beauty because we are compassion, joy, love, empathy, understanding, patience, and tolerance. Our beauty we own, it’s the damage that is collateral.

There is a saying of unknown origins which states, “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well”.

It is not just how they look at themselves but also how they view the events and circumstances they find themselves in.

The idea is that love is at the centre of suffering, pain and loss and this at its core is collateral beauty.

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