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Poor

Author: Caleb Femi
SKU: 9780141992150

Kshs 1,450.00

A NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR’Restlessly inventive, brutally graceful, startlingly beautiful . . .

 

a landmark debut’ Guardian’Oh my God, he’s just stirring me. Destroying me’ Michaela Coel’A poet of truth and rage, heartbreak and joy’ Max Porter’It’s simply stunning. Every image is a revelation’ Terrance HayesWhat is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because ‘you fit the description of a man’ – and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground?In Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham.

 

He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives. Above all, this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet, and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it. As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: ‘I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.’

 

  • Classifications:Houses, apartments, flats, etc, Poetry by individual poets, Material culture, Poverty & unemployment, Social discrimination & inequality, Urban & municipal planning
  • Readership:General (US: Trade) Professional & Vocational Tertiary Education (US: College)
  • Format:Paperback softback 160 pages

ISBN : 9780141992150

Published : 5 Nov 2020

Author : Caleb Femi

Language : English

Main Material : Paperback, Paperback softback

Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd

Size : 130 x 197 x 16 (mm)

Weight : 258g

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