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Poor (Paperback)
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Poor (Paperback)
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List price R337
Loot Price R306
Discovery Miles 3 060
You Save R31 (9%)
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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION Chosen as a
Book of the Year by New Statesman, Financial Times, Guardian,
Observer, Rough Trade and the BBC Shortlisted for the Rathbones
Folio Prize Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 'Restlessly inventive,
brutally graceful, startlingly beautiful ... a landmark debut'
Guardian 'Oh my God, he's just stirring me. Destroying me' Michaela
Coel 'A poet of truth and rage, heartbreak and joy' Max Porter
'Takes us into new literary territory ... impressive' Bernardine
Evaristo, New Statesman (Books of the Year) 'It's simply stunning.
Every image is a revelation' Terrance Hayes What is it like to grow
up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary
school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because
'you fit the description of a man' - and where it is possible to
walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without
ever touching the ground? In Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and
original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams
and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham. He
contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built
environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that
form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the
personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute
to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives. Above all,
this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet, and to the
people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it. As Femi
writes in one of the final poems of this book: 'I have never loved
anything the way I love the endz.'
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