Description
*Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019* Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018 * Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award * Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize *The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.
Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience.
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Two Stories of the Seen and Unseen: The Open Door & Old Lady Mary
Selected Poetry
Dog Poems
Milk and Honey
This Is Yarrow
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve
Words the Turtle Taught Me
The Skies Above My Eyes
Somewhere Else Entirely
The Long and the Short of It
Hansel and Gretel
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Nocturnes At Nohant
Once Upon a Rhythm
Counting Backwards
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
With These Hands
Snowball
River Lane