Ten: New Poets from Spread the Word - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852248793 ISBN 13: 9781852248796

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, 2010

Synopsis

This groundbreaking anthology collects the work of ten new Black and Asian poets living and writing in Britain today. These new voices draw on cultural influences and multiple heritages that enrich and broaden the scope of contemporary British poetry. Their eclectic, wide-ranging poems will take you on a journey into war and exile, myth and magic, homeland and memory, fantasy, family, and love. Whether traveling through the streets of London, the killing fields of Bangladesh, the cane fields of the Caribbean, or back in time to the life of a courtesan in 3rd century BC India, these poems will open up new landscapes for the reader. ""[The editors] compile these writers to grant voice to minority poets in the United Kingdom, providing a very different view of the world. . . A fine volume of poetry.""Midwest Book Review

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About the Author

Bernardine Evaristo was born and raised in London, where she still lives. She has published four cross-genre novels: Lara (new edition, Bloodaxe Books, 2009); Blonde Roots (Penguin, 2008), a prose novel in which Africans enslave Europeans; a novel-with-verse, Soul Tourists (Penguin 2005), which featured ghosts of luminaries including Pushkin, Shakespeare's Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Alessandro dei Medici; and The Emperor's Babe (Penguin, 2001), a verse novel about a black girl growing up in Roman London nearly 2000 years ago. She co-edited the Granta new writing anthology NW15 in 2007 with novelist Maggie Gee; has written short fiction and drama for BBC radio and literary criticism for the Guardian, Times and Independent; and is an Associate Editor of the international literature magazine Wasafiri. She has taken part in over 60 international tours as a writer. Daljit Nagra was born and brought up in West London and Sheffield. He lives in London, and works as a secondary school English teacher. In 2003, he won the Smith/Doorstop pamphlet competition with Oh my Rub!, a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice which was chosen as one of the Guardian's Poetry Books of the Year. In 2004, his poem Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and this became the title of his first collection, published by Faber & Faber in 2007. It went on to win the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and the 2008 Arts Council England Decibel Award. It relates to the experience of British-born Indians, and often employs 'Punglish' - English spoken by Indian Punjabi immigrants. Look We Have Coming to Dover! was shortlisted for several further awards, including the 2007 Costa Poetry Award, and the 2007 Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

Review

[The editors] compile these writers to grant voice to minority poets in the United Kingdom, providing a very different view of the world. . . A fine volume of poetry. --Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1852248793
• ISBN 13: 9781852248796
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Evaristo Bernardine, Nagra Daljit