*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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Industry Reviews
'In his new collection, The Perseverance, Raymond Antrobus writes: 'We are centuries away from people / believing our stories without / perversion, without pity.' At every turn, Antrobus pushes back against flattening, against the tidy narrative - an invidious Ted Hughes poem gets radically revised, an aunt's misheard utterance becomes 'a faint fog horn, a lost river.' It's magic, the way this poet is able to bring together so much - deafness, race, masculinity, a mother's dementia, a father's demise - with such dexterity. Raymond Antrobus is as searching a poet as you're likely to find writing today.' Kaveh Akbar
