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    Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets
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    Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets

    By Jackie Kay, James Procter and Gemma Robinson

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloodaxe Books
    Release dateOct 30, 2014
    ISBN9781780371993
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    Jackie Kay

    Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. A poet, novelist and writer of short stories, she has enjoyed great acclaim for her work for both adults and children. Her novel, Trumpet, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She has published three collections of stories with Picador, Why Don’t You Stop Talking, Wish I Was Here, and Reality, Reality; two poetry collections, Fiere and Bantam; and her memoir, Red Dust Road. From 2016-21 she was the third modern Makar, National Poet for Scotland. She lives in Manchester and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Salford.

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