Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman …
Want to Read"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will remember that Wednesday, after the assembly, your teacher speaking more about supernovas: how they are, in fact, dying stars on the verge of becoming black holes"-Caleb Femi, Poor
"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will remember that Wednesday, after the assembly, your teacher speaking more about supernovas: how they are, in fact, dying stars on the verge of becoming black holes"-Caleb Femi, Poor
"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will remember that Wednesday, after the assembly, your teacher speaking more about supernovas: how they are, in fact, dying stars on the verge of becoming black holes"-Caleb Femi, Poor
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2. The World's Wife
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4. Deaf Republic
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4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
5. Shy
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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
6. Surge
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4.22
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
*Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2019* Jay Bernard’s extraordinary d… read more
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7. Pity
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8. Quiet
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Format: 87 pages, Paperback
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9. C+nto and Othered Poems
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Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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"It's a terrible thing trying to love someone who can't teach you anything."-Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was
12. Postcolonial Love Poem
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"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
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4.08
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"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
14. Self-Portrait as Othello
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15. A Fortune for Your Disaster
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16. Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more
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"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"-Caleb Femi, Poor
17. Losing the Plot
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3.37
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
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