Organic Dreadlocks: Dreadlock Journey, Diary, Manual

by Amy King, Stefan Spescha

This book contains all the information you need to create beautiful, strong, neat, chemical free dreadlocks using only a crochet hook and a few simple tools. It details our personal journey of running a successful, full-time dreadlock business (Organic Dreadlocks) for nearly 15 years and contains all our personalised methods of dreadlock creation, maintenance, repair, restructure, extension, removal and more.
With over 500 visually stunning images of people with dreadlocks from all over the world it provides tremendous inspiration on dreadlock varieties, dread-ucation and step by step diagrams on how to achieve our most sought after and signature styles.
Each part of the process is laid out in order along with QR codes that direct you to 19 course videos (must be purchased separately through the website www.organicdreadlocks.com.au).

242 pages, Paperback

Published December 2, 2022

About the author

Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize winner. She’s co-editor of the anthology Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change and the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry. King is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

King has also taught poetry workshops at such places as the San Francisco State University Poetry Center and the Summer Writing Program @ Naropa University.

Her poems have been nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes, she was a Lambda Literary finalist, and she was the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy founded and curated, from 2006, the Brooklyn-based reading series, The Stain of Poetry, until 2010. Readings, reviews and more @ www.AmyKing.org .