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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.
Un Nuevo Sol: British LatinX Writers is the first major anthology
of UK-based writers of Latin American heritage, a vibrant, new
vanguard in British literature. Representing a community that is
the eighth biggest in London, one of the fastest growing and best
educated, numbering over 200,000 nationally, the work featured here
includes fiction, poetry and theatre that exhibits the stunning
fluidity with which the writers inhabit their hybrid heritage. Of
the ten writers assembled here, some were born in Latin America and
came to the UK in their twenties, others are second generation and
have a British parent, but their work shares a fierceness, a
playfulness with language and a sly political edge. Playing with
form, genre, silence and coding, the resulting work channels and
celebrates the rich mythology and scope of Latin American
literature, but carries a uniquely British gene - a bit of banter,
a flash of restrained cheek. It is no accident that some of the
contributors are published and have growing international
reputations - for example, Brazilian-British novelist Luiza Sauma
(Penguin/Viking) and prize-winning Argentinian-British poet Leo
Boix (Chatto). The book also includes an interview with the
writer-actress Gael Le Cornec, exploring issues of identity,
multiple heritage and displacement.
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