The Can in Can’t which launches tomorrow (12 November) includes more than 90 poems from the city’s Children in Care Council.
The teenagers, aged 13 to 18, have worked with author and Sheffield writer in residence Nik Perring, rapper and facilitator Dominic Heslop and Vicky Morris from youth centre The Hive to produce the book during the Covid-19 pandemic.
An extract from the book:
Listen up, listen up,
We are who we are, don’t try and change us into perfect people
I am not afraid of who I am
I am not afraid of your judgement
I am as clever as everyone else
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