The Actual
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The Actual

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Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021 The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury—sometimes probing delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy. In 55 poems that swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity.Written on the author's phone, in transit, between meetings, before falling asleep and just after waking, this is poetry as polemic, as an act of resistance, but also as dream-vision. At its heart, this book confronts the absolutism and 'foolish machismo' of hero culture—from Perseus to Trump, from Batman to Boko Haram. Through the thick gauze of history, these breathtaking poems look the world square in the face and ask, "What the actual—?""This is what poetry looks like when you have nothing to lose, when you speak from the heart, when you have spent years honing your craft so that you can be free. This is what poetry looks like when you are a word-sorcerer, a linguistic swordsman, a metaphor-dazzler, a passionate creator of poetry as fire, as lament, as beauty, as reflection, as argument, as home. I was blown away by this book."
- Bernardine Evaristo

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Publisher
Penned In The Margins
Year
2020
ISBN
9781908058904
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Poesía

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Inua Ellams
  3. Also by Inua Ellams
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Dedication
  8. Fuck / Tupac
  9. Fuck / Biggie Too
  10. Fuck / The Mandela Effect
  11. Fuck / Mandela
  12. Fuck / Sympathy
  13. Fuck / Weak Hugs
  14. Fuck / Limp Handshakes
  15. Fuck / Borders
  16. Fuck / Border Guards
  17. Fuck / Shakespeare
  18. Fuck / Perseus
  19. Fuck / Tommy Robinson
  20. Fuck / #45
  21. Fuck / #76
  22. Fuck / #77
  23. Fuck / Nestlé
  24. Fuck / Kipling
  25. Fuck / Red Bull
  26. Fuck / The Incalculable Unknown
  27. Fuck / White Saviour Complex
  28. Fuck / Tiffany
  29. Fuck / Aneurysms
  30. Fuck / Love
  31. Fuck / Diminutives
  32. Fuck / Trees
  33. Fuck / Dante
  34. Fuck / Dystopian Loneliness
  35. Fuck / Fate
  36. Fuck / Bikram’s Yoga
  37. Fuck / Concrete
  38. Fuck / Logophobia
  39. Fuck / Paris
  40. Fuck / Swamps
  41. Fuck / Boys
  42. Fuck / Sunflowers
  43. Fuck / Symphonies
  44. Fuck / Light
  45. Fuck / Time
  46. Fuck / Drums
  47. Fuck / Our Future
  48. Fuck / Humanity
  49. Fuck / Factory Emissions
  50. Fuck / Conferences
  51. Fuck / History
  52. Fuck / Nigeria
  53. Fuck / Boko Haram
  54. Fuck / Deserts
  55. Fuck / Camels
  56. Fuck / Dust
  57. Fuck / Carrots
  58. Fuck / The Joker
  59. Fuck / Batman
  60. Fuck / Foggy Shuffles
  61. Fuck / Empire
  62. Fuck / You
  63. Acknowledgements