From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted
map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the
reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and
Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh perspective. This
extensive and ground-breaking anthology – with its sudden forks in
the road, and its roads not taken – stops off in the Highlands and
Islands, skirts the North East coast from Whitley Bay to the sands of
Bridlington, wanders lonely through the Lake District and Yorkshire,
climbs the mountains of Wales before descending to the Black Country
and Southern England. Along the way it takes in lochs and landmarks
from Glasgow's George Square and the Angel of the North to the London
Eye and the Long Man of Wilmington. An alternative A to Z of the
nation, a new poetic guide, the book enables us to look again at the
UK's local and regional landscapes and the poets who pass through
them. Out of Bounds is a definitive anthology that brings together new
and established black and Asian writers and places them firmly on the
map of what is great and not so great about Britain. 'This book really
redraws the map of Britain: away with taxonomies of hurt – welcome
cartographies of worth' – Fred D'Aguiar 'This is a stunning
anthology, every page yielding thought-provoking poetry that is
immediate and direct...this superb, relevant, topical, crucial,
important anthology should be in every secondary school and sixth-form
library.' - Frank Startup, The School Librarian Includes: Shanta
Acharya, John Agard, Patience Agbabi, Moniza Alvi, James Berry, Kamau
Brathwaite, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Vahni Capildeo, Kayo Chingonyi, Maya
Chowdhry, Merle Collins, David Dabydeen, Fred D'Aguiar, Kwame Dawes,
Imtiaz Dharker, Bernardine Evaristo, Lorna Goodison, Maggie Harris,
Khadijah Ibrahiim, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Anthony Joseph, Jackie Kay,
Tariq Latif, Sheree Mack, Jack Mapanje, E.A. Markham, Raman Mundair,
Daljit Nagra, Grace Nichols, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Roger Robinson,
Michelle Scally-Clarke, Seni Seneviratne, John Siddique, Lemn Sissay,
Dorothea Smartt, Wole Soyinka, Kimberly Trusty, Derek Walcott,
Benjamin Zephaniah, and many others.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781780371993
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloodaxe Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok