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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS ‘Beautiful, haunting,
thought-provoking … A book I will return to again and again’
Bernardine Evaristo A gorgeously produced, hugely original
examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century What is Black
Britain? In 2021, award-winning poet Roger Robinson and acclaimed
photographer Johny Pitts rented a red Mini Cooper and decided to
follow the coast clockwise in search of an answer to this question.
Leaving London, they followed the River Thames east towards
Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. Too often, that
is where the history told about Black Britain begins and ends –
but Robinson and Pitts continued out of London, following the coast
clockwise through Margate to Land’s End, Bristol to Blackpool,
Glasgow to John O’Groats and Scarborough to Southend on Sea.
Here, the authors found not only Black British culture long
overlooked in official narratives of Britain, but also the history
of Empire and transatlantic slavery to which every Briton is
tethered. Home Is Not a Place is the spectacular result of the
journey they documented: a free-form composition of photography,
poetry and essays that offers a book-length reflection upon Black
Britishness – its complexity, strength and resilience – at the
start of a new decade. ‘Masterful … A thing of brilliance’
Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water
Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a
historian's insight with vivid personal memories going back to just
after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 ""Austerity
Olympics"" in London as a young spectator to working as a
journalist in the Boston Marathon media center at the moment of the
2013 bombings, Robinson offers a fascinating first-person account
of the tragic and triumphant moments that impacted the world and
shaped the modern sport. He chronicles the beginnings of the
American running boom, the emergence of women's running, the end of
the old amateur rules, and the redefinition of aging for athletes
and amateurs. With an intimate perspective and insightful
reporting, Robinson captures major historical events through the
lens of running. He recounts running in Berlin at the time of
German reunification in 1990, organizing a replacement track meet
in New Zealand after the disastrous 2011 earthquake, and the
triumph of Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila in the 1960 Olympics in
Rome. As an avid runner, journalist, and fan, Robinson brings these
global events to life and reveals the intimate and powerful ways in
which running has intersected with recent history.
Writing from a place somewhere between Trinidad and Brixton, from a
vantage point that is at once insider and outsider, these poems
from acclaimed poet Roger Robinson lead to a state of alienation
and unbelonging in black British London. Such a changing reality is
all too evident to the periodic returnee, who is conscious of both
his growing difference and the fragility of his memories of the
world he has known. But these are far from bleak and alienated
poems as the very fear of loss generates a drive to re-create the
remembered world in all its richness, humor, and sensuality.
Displaying a faith in a human capacity for regeneration, these
stirring works shape new concepts of home by the very rewarding act
of re-creating memory through stories that are gracefully and
elegantly rendered.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a
historian's insight with vivid personal memories going back to just
after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 ""Austerity
Olympics"" in London as a young spectator to working as a
journalist in the Boston Marathon media center at the moment of the
2013 bombings, Robinson offers a fascinating first-person account
of the tragic and triumphant moments that impacted the world and
shaped the modern sport. He chronicles the beginnings of the
American running boom, the emergence of women's running, the end of
the old amateur rules, and the redefinition of aging for athletes
and amateurs. With an intimate perspective and insightful
reporting, Robinson captures major historical events through the
lens of running. He recounts running in Berlin at the time of
German reunification in 1990, organizing a replacement track meet
in New Zealand after the disastrous 2011 earthquake, and the
triumph of Ethiopian athlete Abebe Bikila in the 1960 Olympics in
Rome. As an avid runner, journalist, and fan, Robinson brings these
global events to life and reveals the intimate and powerful ways in
which running has intersected with recent history.
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Suckle (Paperback)
Roger Robinson
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"Suckle," Roger Robinson's much-anticipated follow up to
"Suitcase," proves once and for all that Roger's unique territory
is memory and its capital is Trinidad - somewhere within its
borders are the answers to everything, if you just look hard
enough. His approach, self-deprecating yet erudite, creates
intoxicating poetry flavoured with the attitude and lingo of his
Trinidadian homeland. Delving into the past with much more
confidence than in his debut, "Suckle" is alive with the terror and
beauty of youth, and memorable for the recurring dance crew
Emperors: '...I was its only non breaking member./ I did the
practical things, the support: / Someone had to carry the
linoleum./ Someone had to adjust the equaliser'. Simple things,
profound truths.
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