Overview
The debut full collection from celebrated British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.
*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.
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- | Author: Raymond Antrobus
- | Publisher: Penned in the Margins
- | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781908058522
- | ISBN-10: 1908058528
