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*Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019* Winner of the
Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018 *
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award * Shortlisted for the Jhalak
Prize * The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut by
British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and
continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their
haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance
is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for
the poet's father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf
experience. Audiobook now available from Audible, Amazon and
iTunes.
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Terrible Horses
Raymond Antrobus; Illustrated by Ken Wilson-Max
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The debut children's book from Ted Hughes award-winning poet
Raymond Antrobus that tracks a father-and-son journey into the
discovery and management of deafness. This new paperback edition
includes an illustrated BSL alphabet. Boy Bear cannot hear Dad Bear
coming to wake him up in the morning but he can feel the floor
vibrate with his heavy footsteps. He can only grasp little bits of
what his teacher says to him at school. He cannot catch what his
friends are laughing at. And, all the time, Boy Bear keeps hearing
the question, "Can Bears ski?" What does it mean? With the support
of Dad Bear, Boy Bear visits an audiologist and, eventually, he
gets hearing aids. Suddenly, he understands the question everyone
has been asking him: "CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Raymond Antrobus, the
award-winning poet of The Perseverance, draws on his own experience
to show how isolating it can be for a deaf child in a hearing
world. But through his lyrical and moving words, matched with
Polly's stunning imagery, he also shows how many ways there are to
communicate love. With a solid network, Boy Bear will find his
place in the world.
From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019 Shortlisted for
the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021 '[Raymond Antrobus] has built another
beautiful paper house which you can spend a very long and deeply
satisfying time inside.' Mark Haddon 'Moving deftly between
tenderness and violence, hope and grief, praise and lament, this is
a deeply evocative collection that will linger in the reader's
mind.' Guardian Raymond Antrobus's astonishing debut collection,
The Perseverance, won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes
Award, amongst many other accolades; the poet's much anticipated
second collection, All The Names Given, continues his essential
investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory.
Throughout, All The Names Given is punctuated with [Caption Poems]
partially inspired by Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, which
attempt to fill in the silences and transitions between the poems,
as well as moments inside and outside of them. Direct, open,
formally sophisticated, All The Names Given breaks new ground both
in form and content: the result is a timely, humane and tender book
from one of the most important young poets of his generation.
In an exciting collaboration between Raymond Antrobus and Ken
Wilson-Max, comes a truly authentic and stunningly evocative
picture book on brother-sister dynamics and how creativity and
storytelling can help resolve conflict and enable better
understanding. My sister and me fight! Push Pull Hurt Hide. We
would not use our words. This little boy does not get on with his
sister. They misunderstand each other, struggle to communicate, and
they fight. Afterwards, there’s a lot of hurt, heavy feelings and
loneliness. In order to escape their constant rowing and clear his
head, the boy often retreats to his bedroom when he writes his
stories. He writes stories about terrible horses - trampling and
galloping - and he, a lone pony, who cannot compete and cannot
speak. But what happens when his sister finds his book? Could it be
a way for them to finally understand each other? Filled with
empathy and poignance, Terrible Horses is a beautiful and powerful
story of managing anger, reflection and learning to see someone
else's perspective.
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