Synopsis
Winner of The Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award 2019
Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019
Winner of the Ted Hughes Award
Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize
‘[A] memorable collection ... Antrobus interlaces wit and pathos as he examines his identity as a deaf British-Jamaican man in a world between sign language and speech.' - The Sunday Times - Poetry Book of the Year
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book 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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Penned in the Margins
- ISBN: 9781908058522
- Number of pages: 80
- Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm
- Weight: 122g
- Languages: English
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