The Actual - Couverture souple

Ellams, Inua

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908058781 ISBN 13 : 9781908058782

Editeur : Penned in the Margins, 2020

Synopsis

Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021

The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury sometimes probing delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy. In 55 poems that swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity. Written on the author's phone, in transit, between meetings, before falling asleep and just after waking, this is poetry as polemic, as an act of resistance, but also as dream-vision. At its heart, this book confronts the absolutism and 'foolish machismo' of hero culture from Perseus to Trump, from Batman to Boko Haram. Through the thick gauze of history, these breathtaking poems look the world square in the face and ask, 'What the actual?'

'This is what poetry looks like when you have nothing to lose, when you speak from the heart, when you have spent years honing your craft so that you can be free. This is what poetry looks like when you are a word-sorcerer, a linguistic swordsman, a metaphor-dazzler, a passionate creator of poetry as fire, as lament, as beauty, as reflection, as argument, as home. I was blown away by this book.' - Bernardine Evaristo

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Nigeria, Ellams is a UK-based poet, playwright and performer who has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and the BBC. His latest play, an adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters set in Nigeria, is on at the National Theatre until 19 February. The Actual will be Ellams' fifth poetry release, and first full collection, after Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales (flipped eye, 2005), Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars (flipped eye, 2011), The Wire-Headed Heathen (Akashic Books, 2016) and The Half God of Rainfall (Fourth Estate, 2019).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penned in the Margins
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908058781
• ISBN 13: 9781908058782
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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• Personne responsable: non disponible