The perseverance / Raymond Antrobus.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781951142421
- ISBN: 195114242X
- ISBN: 9781951142438
- ISBN: 1951142438
- Physical Description: 81 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First US edition.
- Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Echo -- Aunt Beryl Meets Castro -- My Mother Remembers -- Jamaican British -- Ode to My Hair -- The Perseverance -- I Move Through London like a Hotep -- Sound Machine -- Dear Hearing World -- 'Deaf School' / by Ted Hughes -- After Reading 'Deaf School' by the Mississippi River -- For Jesula Gelin, Vanessa Previl and Monique Vincent -- Conversation with the Art Teacher (a Translation Attempt) -- The Ghost of Laura Bridgman Warns Helen Keller About Fame -- The Mechanism of Speech -- Doctor Marigold Re-evaluated -- The Shame of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard -- Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris -- To Sweeten Bitter -- I Want the Confidence of -- After Being Called a Fucking Foreigner in London Fields -- Closure -- Maybe I Could Love a Man -- Samantha -- Thinking of Dad's Dick -- Miami Airport -- His Heart -- Dementia -- Happy Birthday Moon. |
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Subject: | Sound poetry. Communication > Poetry. Grief > Poetry. Deaf > Poetry. English poetry > 21st century. |
Genre: | Poetry. Poetry. |
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | 821.92 ANT (Text) | 000160779 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Perseverance
Raymond Antrobus was born in London, Hackney, to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of two other poetry collections, The Perseverance and All The Names Given. He is a recipient of the Ted Hughes Award, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize, Griffin Prize and the Forward Prize. In 2018 he was awarded The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize (judged by Ocean Vuong) for his poem Sound Machine. He has also published two children's picture books, Can Bears Ski? and Terrible Horses and hosted a number of award-winning radio documentaries including "Inventions In Sound" (BBC Radio 4, 2021). He is a Cave Canem graduate in the US, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature in the UK, and divides his time between England and New Orleans.