{"product_id":"bad-diaspora-poems","title":"BAD DIASPORA POEMS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e114pp., paperback,\u003c\/em\u003e Reprint, Vintage, London, (2023) 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781529922561\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Sky Arts Award for Poetry, an\u003cspan\u003e Eric Gregory Award and the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her exhilarating debut collection Momtaza Mehri \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003emixes her own family's experience with the stories of many others across nineteenth- and twentieth-century Somalia, confronting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the ambivalent nature of speaking for those who have been left behind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\"An exceptional debut collection that reinvigorates ideas around diaspora, migration and home. Wide-ranging and ambitious, her poetry shimmers with erudition and linguistic exquistiveness, while also having an exceptional heart. Drawing on global cultures, Mehri is a truly transnational poet of the twenty-first century whose words pulsate out into the world-at-large.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBernadine Evaristo, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A poet like Momtaza Mehri comes only once in a generation. Mehri is writer of refined insight, audacious imagination and artful technicality - a genius.  \u003cem\u003eBad Diaspora Poems \u003c\/em\u003eis a feast, its scope of movement both in time and geography is immense, you are swallowed into its voyage. This is an essential collection in the Black diasporic discourse.\" Caleb Femi, \u003cspan\u003eauthor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eSomali-British essayist and poet\u003cb\u003e Momtaza Mehri \u003c\/b\u003e(b. 1995)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a former Young People's Poet Laureate for London and winner of the 2019 Manchester Writing Prize. Her writing has featured in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWasafiri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBidoun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and on BBC Radio 4. She works across criticism, translation, anti-disciplinary research practices, education and radio. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mehri (M.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42330581663790,"sku":null,"price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0265\/3182\/3662\/files\/BadDiasporaPoems.jpg?v=1778151246","url":"https:\/\/clarkesbooks.co.za\/products\/bad-diaspora-poems","provider":"Clarke's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}