Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 The Actual is a
symphony of personal and political fury-sometimes probing
delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy. In 55 poems that
swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a
full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism,
injustice and toxic masculinity. Written on the author's phone, in
transit, between meetings, before falling asleep and just after
waking, this is poetry as polemic, as an act of resistance, but
also as dream-vision. At its heart, this book confronts the
absolutism and 'foolish machismo' of hero culture-from Perseus to
Trump, from Batman to Boko Haram. Through the thick gauze of
history, these breathtaking poems look the world square in the face
and ask, "What the actual-?". 'This is what poetry looks like when
you have nothing to lose, when you speak from the heart, when you
have spent years honing your craft so that you can be free. This is
what poetry looks like when you are a word sorcerer, a linguistic
swordsman, a metaphor-dazzler, a passionate creator of poetry as
fire, as lament, as beauty, as reflection, as argument, as home. I
was blown away by this book' - Bernardine Evaristo
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