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More fiya : a new collection of Black British poetry / edited by Kayombo Chingonyi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chingonyi, Kayo.
- Series:
- Canons.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--21st century.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--Black authors.
- Authors, Black.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- 2022.
- Edinburgh : Canongate, [2022]
- Summary:
- A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current poets extending and inhabiting the spirits of the ancestors. Following in the tread of Lemn Sissay's The Fire People, More Fiya aims to lodge in the mind of its readers for a lifetime, radiating to touch the lives of many. Including work from: Jason Allen-Paisant, Raymond Antrobus, Janette Ayachi, Dean Atta, Malika Booker, Eric Ngalle Charles, Dzifa Benson, Inua Ellams, Samatar Elmi, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Keith Jarrett, Anthony Joseph, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Vanessa Kisuule, Rachel Long, Adam Lowe, Nick Makoha, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Momtaza Mehri, Bridget Minamore, Selina Nwulu, Gboyega Odubanjo, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Roger Robinson, Denise Saul, Kim Squirrell, Warsan Shire, Rommi Smith, Yomi Sode, Degna Stone, Keisha Thompson, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Warda Yassin, Belinda Zhawi
- Contents:
- Intro
- Kayo Chingonyi
- Introduction
- Jason Allen-Paisant
- Maple Grove
- Learning Birdsong
- Tree Dreaming
- Raymond Antrobus
- The Acceptance
- And That
- For Cousin John
- Dean Atta
- No Ascension
- Signet
- Two Black Boys in Paradise
- Janette Ayachi
- The Lovers
- QuickFire, Slow Burning
- Worshipping Grief
- Dzifa Benson
- For the Love of Hendrik de Jongh, Drummer from Batavia
- Ms Hipson, the tall Dutchwoman, dreams of dancing with a man tall enough to make her feel delicate
- Ms Sidonia married twice and retired a wealthy woman
- Malika Booker
- Points of this Reckoning
- Discordant Mourning
- Golden Grove
- Eric Ngalle Charles
- Mboa Mi: 'My Country'
- Heroes
- A Song for Freedom
- Inua Ellams
- The Vanishing
- Of Howling Wolves
- A Boy / Twice
- Samatar Elmi
- [Etymologies]
- The Fear
- Coda
- Khadijah Ibrahiim
- Herman Avenue Hand-Cart Woman
- Bath Prescription 1
- Bush Craft Prescription
- Keith Jarrett
- My mother sings of how she got her education
- Scalp
- Nor the Arrow That Flies in the Day
- Anthony Joseph
- Naming
- Wire, God of Wallerfield
- House Party, Mt Lambert, 1978
- Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
- Bitch Ghazal
- Hurricanes Also Taught Us How to Be Sophisticated When Things Get Messy
- Slow Whine
- Vanessa Kisuule
- Auntiehood
- Blessings
- On Freezing A Dead Son
- Rachel Long
- Your Daddy Ain't Rich
- As If
- Adam Lowe
- Desire
- Aftermath
- Once We Were Wolves
- Nick Makoha
- An Essay on Man
- Pythagoras Theorem
- The Long Duration of a Split Second
- Karen McCarthy Woolf
- from Unsafe
- Momtaza Mehri
- A Comparative History of Fire
- hooyos
- Even on Canvas, Oilfields Burn
- Bridget Minamore
- Golden Shovel for My People
- Catching Joke
- Sestina for Kara Walker
- Selina Nwulu
- A History of Banning
- Mango Tree
- When the Party Is Over.
- Gboyega Odubanjo
- Dip
- Arrangements
- Man
- Louisa Adjoa Parker
- There are moments I forget
- You're
- Housewarming
- Roger Robinson
- Gold
- Aba Shanti Soundsystem
- Denise Saul
- The Room Between Us
- Instructions For Yellow
- The Viewing
- Kim Squirrell
- Walking Home from School
- Healing
- I Want to Write a Poem About Togetherness
- Warsan Shire
- Backwards
- Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle
- Rommi Smith
- from Palette for a Portrait of Little Richard
- Yomi Ṣode
- On Fatherhood: Proximity to Death
- [Insert Name]'s Mother: A Ghazal
- On Fatherhood: Envy
- Degna Stone
- over
- Another Tongue
- How to Unpick the Lies?
- Keisha Thompson
- Some Have Beaten Suffering
- The Concrete Square off Tib Street in May
- Number 2020
- Kandace Siobhan Walker
- Art Pop
- Eye Contact
- Sugar, Sugar, Honey, Honey
- Warda Yassin
- Swift
- Treetop Hotel
- Miss Yassin
- Belinda Zhawi
- Tchaikovsky's January
- Runyengetero
- This Body Wants What It Wants
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Permission Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781838855314
- 1838855319
- OCLC:
- 1311314306
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