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In 2008 the level of poets of colour published by major presses was
less than 1%. In 2020 it was over 20%. The Complete Works Poetry
– an initiative spearheaded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine
Evaristo – played a significant role in this change. Supporting
30 poets from 2008 through to 2020, The Complete Works produced an
unprecedented number of prizewinners, including the Forward Prizes
(3), T.S. Eliot Prize (2), Ted Hughes Award (2), Somerset Maugham
Award, Dylan Thomas Prize, Rathbones Folio Prize and Sunday Times
Young Writer of the Year Award. TCW Fellows have also gone on to
judge every major poetry award, and to take on significant roles in
academia and translation, publishing over 40 collections. The
Complete Works has become the most successful collective ever
formed in British poetry. Mapping the Future offers new work by all
30 writers it has supported, including Warsan Shire, Raymond
Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker,
Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode and
Karen McCarthy Woolf. It also includes fierce essays re-drawing the
map of British poetry by 10 of the 30 poets, touching on the most
significant topics of our time. Mapping the Future is not just a
magnificent anthology of some of the best UK poets, it is also an
exploration on how poetry in Britain has become much more inclusive
over the past 15 years: what has been won, and what is still being
fought for. This anthology offers a timely insight into British
poetry and how the voice of the ‘other’ continues to take
centre-stage in pivotal times. Mapping the Future is edited by poet
Karen McCarthy Woolf, editor of the second two Ten anthologies in
The Complete Works series, with Dr Nathalie Teitler, director of
The Complete Works.
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TOP DOLL (Hardcover)
Karen McCarthy Woolf
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The lyrical, hilarious and totally original debut novel by
award-winning poet and campaigner, Karen McCarthy Woolf. An
entitled porcelain doll struggles to cope with reality when her
lifetime companion, a reclusive billionaire heiress, is admitted to
hospital. This is their story. Top Doll is a verse novel and a
highly unreliable, semi-fictional biography of the eccentric
American billionaire heiress Huguette Clarke, who died in New
York's Beth Israel Hospital, age 106, not having been outside for
more than 50 years. She trusted no one and spoke to few, except for
accountant, her lawyer and her vast collection of dolls, who
together narrate this miniature epic. It is both deadly serious and
incredibly funny in its exploration of the emotional influence
dolls exert on the human psyche and how this embodies family power
dynamics and the politics of race, wealth and desire.
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The complex, lyrical, hilarious and completely wonderful debut
novel by award-winning poet and campaigner, Karen McCarthy Woolf.
An entitled porcelain doll struggles to cope with reality when her
lifetime companion, a reclusive billionaire heiress, is admitted to
hospital. This is their story. Top Doll is a verse novel and a
highly unreliable, semi-fictional biography of the eccentric
American billionaire heiress Huguette Clarke, who died in New
York's Beth Israel Hospital, age 106, not having been outside for
more than 50 years. She trusted no one and spoke to few, except for
accountant, her lawyer and her vast collection of dolls, who
together narrate this miniature epic. It is both deadly serious and
incredibly funny in its exploration of the emotional influence
dolls exert on the human psyche and how this embodies family power
dynamics and the politics of race, wealth and desire.
Ten: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting
new poets in Britain today. These ten poets were selected for The
Complete Works 2 mentoring project, a groundbreaking initiative to
promote diversity and quality in British poetry, initiated by the
writer Bernardine Evaristo. The poets follow on from the first
group to take part in this scheme, whose work was published in
Bernardine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra's anthology Ten: new poets
from Spread the Word (2010). Most of those poets have gone on to
win awards and have their poetry collections published. The new
poets in this anthology are Mona Arshi, Jay Bernard, Kayo
Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Inua Ellams, Sarah Howe,
Adam Lowe, Eileen Pun and Warsan Shire. These poets have
backgrounds in Asia, Europe, the Caribbean and Africa, and their
work draws on their multicultural heritage and tapestry. Many of
them also work across art forms and have enjoyed success as
playwrights, graphic artists and even in the martial arts.
Talented, adventurous and culturally rich, these poets will open up
new landscapes for the reader.
Ten: poets of the new generation presents the work of ten exciting
British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology
from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national
programme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets founded by
the writer Bernardine Evaristo in 2007. Already making a big impact
on the British poetry scene, poets from the series have included
Sarah Howe, the 2016 winner of both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award; Mona Arshi, winner of
the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2016; and Warsan Shire,
who collaborated with Beyonce on her visual album, Lemonade in
2016, which featured many of Shire's poems. This latest anthology
in the Ten series will not disappoint readers hoping to discover
more exceptional talent. It includes poets with even more diverse
backgrounds ranging from Somalia and Nigeria through to Jamaica and
the multiculturalism of Macau, and features the first poet from
Latin America. These are poets who interrogate race and explode any
ideas of a page/stage divide. Fierce, unexpected, sometimes
beautiful and always passionate, here are ten poets to savour and
enjoy. The poets included are: Raymond Antrobus, Natacha Bryan,
Leonardo Boix, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Will Harris, Ian Humphreys,
Jennifer Lee Tsai, Momtaza Mehri, Yomi Sode and Degna Stone. The
Complete Works III is directed by Dr Nathalie Teitler, with thanks
to Arts Council England for their generous funding. Copublication
with The Complete Works III.
An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and
testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative
art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the
moment of death when, after a long labour and an emergency
caesarean, the baby's heart gives out. For the mother, her body
flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way to shock, followed by
an intense and visceral grief. However, just as grief itself is not
linear, so too the book follows an emotional rather than a strictly
chronological arc, lyric rather than narrative. At the same time,
McCarthy Woolf's formal experimentation allows an intellectual and
metaphysical line of enquiry to emerge. Ultimately, it is a closely
felt connection with the natural world, particularly with water and
birds, that allows the author to transcend the experience and
honour the spirit of her son.
Second Place winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. A 2017
Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Following her groundbreaking
2014 debut An Aviary of Small Birds (`technically perfect poems of
winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with
Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and
emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative
explorations of nature, the city, and the self. A sinister CEO
presides over a dystopian hinterland where private detectives
investigate crimes against hollyhocks; Halcyon is discovered as a
dead kingfisher, washed up on an Italian beach. Lyrical and
inventive, McCarthy Woolf's poems test classic and contemporary
forms, from a disrupted zuihitsu that considers her relationship
with water, to the landay, golden shovel, and gram of &. As a
fifth-generation Londoner and daughter of a Jamaican emigre,
McCarthy Woolf makes a variety of linguistic subversions that
critique the rhetoric of the British class system. Political as
they may be, these poems are not reportage: they aim to inspire
what the author describes as an `activism of the heart, where we
connect to and express forces of renewal and love'.
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