The Perseverance

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Raymond Antrobus

An extraordinary debut from a young British-Jamaican poet, ‘The Perseverance’ is a book of loss, language, and praise. One of the most crucial new voices to emerge from Britain, Raymond Antrobus explores the d/Deaf experience, the death of his father and the failure to communicate. Ranging across history, time zones and continents, this book operates in the in betweens – of dual heritages, of form and expression – emerging to show us what it means to exist, and to flourish.

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*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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Weight 136 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 × 0.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Penned in the Margins
Imprint

Cover

Paperback
Pages

91
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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