Description
| Product ID: | 9781529030235 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Cannibal |
| Authors: | Author: Safiya Sinclair |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Jamaica |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair. <p><b>A beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair that draws on our colonial history and speaks powerfully to our present moment.</b><br><b><br>Shortlisted for Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021 </b><br><b>A <i>Guardian </i>most anticipated book for 2020</b><br><br><b>'Safiya Sinclair bursts onto the shelves with this richly powerful debut collection' – <i>Scotsman</i></b><br><br>Colliding with and confronting Shakespeare's <i>The Tempest</i> and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's <i>Cannibal </i>beautifully evoke the poet's Jamaican childhood and reach beyond to explore history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. <br><br>Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke. <i>Cannibal</i> marks the arrival of a thrilling and essential lyrical voice.<br><br><b><i>'Cannibal </i>is nothing less than an entrancing debut that reveals the teeming intellect and ravishing lucidity of a young poet in full possession of her literary powers.' – Major Jackson</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-01 |
