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Black Roses is a poetic sequence written in the voice of Sophie
Lancaster.
Twenty-year-old Sophie was attacked in a Lancashire park in 2007
and died several days later. The ferocity of the assault caused
distress and outrage when reported by the international media and
led to the creation of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity
opposed to all forms of hatecrime and victimisation.
The radio broadcast of Black Roses won the BBC Radio Best Speech
Programme of 2011 and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for
Poetry.
One-third of all profits from the sale of this book will be donated
to the Sophie
Lancaster Foundation.
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