Sam Rapp is an award-winning poet and playwright who tours the country, at poetry nights and festivals as The Dyslexic Poet. Despite the obstacles presented by dyslexia, Sam has found publication in magazines and websites up and down the country. Since performing her first poem at Brighton Fringe, Sam has broken down barriers to form and genre, delivering her message of inclusion and perseverance. Rant: Dyslexic Me is her debut collection, which finds her in conversational, confessional and confrontational spirits as she reflects on adversity and bullying, and ultimately, the overcoming of odds. "Rant Dyslexic Me" is a collection of poems that capture Sam's personal experiences of being dyslexic. Her insightful words chart her voyage of self discovery from her experiences as a child through to adulthood. Sam's passion and emotion leap from the pages and convey her story and life experiences of dyslexia. - Helen Boden, CEO, British Dyslexic Association Sam Rapp's reputation as an unstoppable force on stage has steadily grown beyond Kent and her native Sussex into London and well beyond. This book now puts her enormous passion onto the page and makes it available to an even wider audience. She uses the word 'rant' but these poems are not mere shouting. It is by blending potency with integrity and compassion that she so successfully defeats the various discriminators, past and present. Readers will see that Sam Rapp is "full of colour, free and at liberty." - Matt Chamberlain Sam stands tall and proud, knows her own sunshine, follows her clever, brave heart. She has risen taller for there being less light. Now she writes in the sky: empowering words that people can reach up, hang onto and fly on the exultant tails of. These honest, tumbling words dare us to dance the way we were made and to beach discrimination. Sam invites the dyslexics and the damned to dream bigger than the alphabet, in freshly grated poems that exploit the confines of structure and language. - Angela Dye Sam Rapp's Rant: Dyslexic me is exactly that and more. It is a hard hitting and emotionally powerful collection of poems which enable the reader to begin to identify with what it is like to be significantly dyslexic and which raise awareness about dyslexia. In some poems precise and immediate details of school life - the ticking clock, the sound of a passing train are blended with the poet's negative experiences of school. The poet juxtaposes strong visual images, for example, a harpooned whale on the beach, with important insights into dyslexia such as the way people are judged or pitied unfairly, the fact that it is hereditary and invisible and the way school curriculum focuses on English and Maths. The collection also incorporates positive images, the freedom of the natural world and the strength and warmth and passion of a creative person with dyslexia. - Helen Kay, Derby University Sam has demonstrated her rage and range in this tremendous poetry debut. With beautiful imagery and crystal clarity, with fire streaming from her breath, she illuminates the journey from dispossession to self-possession. She is a rebel, maybe even a revolutionary. Sam is the Amazing Dyslexic Poet, and she has one hell of a story to tell. - S.M Jenkin