'The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the
individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry
pamphlet series, comprising the work of Nick Makoha, Inua Ellams,
Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jessica Horn, Truth Thomas, Denise Saul, Malika
Booker, Janett Plummer and Warsan Shire. The series was conceived
by flipped eye publishing's senior editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, as a
means to get poets from non-mainstream backgrounds - including
performance - into print. It was revolutionary for two reasons;
first, it was a pamphlet series developed with a specific aim
(later, tall-lighthouse would launch its pilot series, and, much
later, Faber would launch its New Poets Initiative); second, it was
a finite series - to end after ten pamphlets. After some success
with the first two pamphlets in the series, Nick Makoha's 'The Lost
Collection of an Invisible Man' (2005) and Inua Ellams' '13 Fairy
Negro Tales' (2005), the Arts Council of England provided funding
for the next four. It took six years for the series to be
completed, but its impact far exceeded expectations. Authors such
as Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose (later editor of the last
pamphlet in the series), Malika Booker, Nick Makoha and Warsan
Shire, have risen to international prominence; three of the
pamphlets were cited by the Poetry Book Society pamphlet selectors
for their quality; two of the poets feature in the new Penguin
Modern Poets series; and Truth Thomas's from his pamphlet 'Party of
Black' (2006) was chosen for Nikki Giovanni's 'The 100 Best African
American Poems' (Sourcebooks, 2010). Crucially, the series has
retailed admirably as well, with over 50,000 copies sold at events
- and through conventional retail channels. Initially released
exactly four years ago as a hardback that retained hallmarks of the
iconic mouthmark series, such as the distinctive brown paper-look
cover with bold black designs, this low-priced paperback edition
seeks to introduce more readers to the work of the nine brilliant
poets published under the series.
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