Oluwale Now: An Anthology of Poetry, Prose and Artwork Responding to the Story of David Oluwale

Oluwale Now explores the contemporary issues that David Oluwale''s story touches upon through poetry, prose and over 40 featured artworks and photographs.Themes of memory, belonging, otherness and optimisim are central to this uplifting book, which, although it refuses to deny or sugar-coat the horrors of systematic racism and brutality, also offers us a glimpse of a better future.

Oluwale Now explores the contemporary issues that David Oluwale’s story touches upon through over 40 selections of poetry and prose (including prize-winning submissions from Hannah Stone; Gill Tennant, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan) as well as over 20 featured artworks and photography. Central to this book are the themes of memory, belonging, otherness and optimism. Building upon Remembering Oluwale: An Anthology (edited by SJ Bradley, Valley Press, 2016), this anthology moves through historical and contemporary pain towards hope; there is an upward thrust through Oluwale Now which refuses to deny or sugar-coat the horrors of systematic racism and brutality but allows us a glimpse of a better future.

"A powerful, varied, lyrical tribute that mobilises our memory and engages the imagination" Gary Younge

• | Author: Emily Zobel Marshall, Sai Murray
• | Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• | Publication Date: Dec 07, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781845235819
• | ISBN-10: 1845235819