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A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of
the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A
schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat
of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough
collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally
transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and
contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the
streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one
family. Anaxagorou 'speaks against the darkness', tracking the male
body under pressure from political and historical forces, and
celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a
meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet's
Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic.
Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric
grace, he writes, 'I'm your father & the only person keeping
you alive.' Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize A Poetry Society
Recommendation A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year One of The
Telegraphs Best Poetry Books of 2019
What does it mean to have 'heritage', and how do we perform or undo
it? In these daring and sonorous poems, Anaxagorou conducts a
researched unpacking of two countries whose dividing lines of a
colonial past are still visible and felt. Uniquely engaged with the
complexities of Cyprus and the diasporic experience, these poems
map both an island's public history alongside a person's private
reckoning. They offer a ferocious and uncompromising look towards
the damaging historical structures that have led to now. Fearless,
intensely honest and hopeful, Heritage Aesthetics merges Anthony's
gift for performance and his brilliant experimentation with form to
create a vivid insistence to communicate a self in the world.
The Blink That Killed The Eye is a beautifully written collection
of short stories exploring the lives of people who, whether through
status, wealth, gender or age, are rendered invisible by society.
All the stories in some form deal with conflict, be it internal or
external, and show the characters' struggle to regain some kind of
control or understanding over their lives. The stories work both
individually and chronologically, with each interlinked through the
lives of the characters. The collection explores themes of
invisibility, domestic violence, regret, narrowmindedness,
loneliness, depression, alienation, abuse, dreams and loss.
A stunningly crafted debut short story collection, The Blink That
Kills the Eye takes a poetic torch to the shadows of daily life,
illuminating the characters, situations, emotions and dilemmas that
pour into even the most ordinary existences. From building sites to
prison cells... from the birth of love to the last moments of
breath... poet Anthony Anaxagorou expertly navigates through the
tangled nets of invisibility, desperation and power to bring us
time-defining tales of tragedy and hope - commenting on the irony
of our shrinking capacity to really see ourselves or each other in
a world increasingly defined by appearances and dangerous
preconceptions. While each story stands affectingly on its own,
Anaxagorou also weaves an affecting chronology, the lives of the
characters overlapping and intertwining as they develop
individually. Exploring themes of invisibility, alienation, abuse,
and loss, this brave and touching short story collection shows the
poet-educator at his soul-stirring best.
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