Living by Troubled Waters - Couverture souple

McFarlane, Roy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191343754X ISBN 13 : 9781913437541

Editeur : Nine Arches Press, 2022

Synopsis

Living by Troubled Waters is the third poetry collection by Roy McFarlane – an extraordinary, uncompromising book exploring slavery, colonialism, and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved. In his close examination of the horror of racialised violence, McFarlane examines how the strong currents of the past and present flow side by side. His poems ask us to think about the Black Mediterranean of today as much as we do about the Windrush scandal and the aftershocks of trans-Atlantic slavery, where Black people are still imprisoned, enslaved and drowned as they flee persecution and poverty.

Living by Troubled Waters is innovative, formally experimental and far ranging in scope; erasure & inclusion (to make known) poems interweave and speak to the wider body of the collection. In his use of archival documents as a space for activism and linguistic intervention, McFarlane writes back into history, reclaiming voices and reshaping narratives. His poems also draw strength from themes of place and displacement, social justice, Black motherhood, family, art - and from the power of poetry itself as a witness to troubled times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roy McFarlane was born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage and spent many years living in Wolverhampton. He has held the role of Birmingham’s Poet Laureate and Starbucks’ Poet in Residence. Roy’s writing has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe 2012) and he is the writer and editor of Celebrate Wha? (Smokestack 2011). His first full collection of poems, Beginning With Your Last Breath, was published by Nine Arches Press in September 2016. It was followed The Healing Next Time in 2018, selected by The Guardian as one of the best poetry books of that year, nominated for the Jhalak Prize the Ted Hughes Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nine Arches Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 191343754X
• ISBN 13: 9781913437541
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 107
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