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The Perseverance

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*Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019* Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018 * Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award * Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize *

The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.
Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience.

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Award winner…

“The Perseverance” by Raymond Antrobus won the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize, the first collection of poetry to ever take home the award. The book “uses [Antrobus’] D/deaf experience, bereavement, and Jamaican/British heritage to consider the ways we all communicate with each other. It’s an exceptionally brave, kind book; it seemed, in our atomised times, to be the book we most wanted to give to others, the book we all needed to read,” said the chair of the judges.

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Release dateOct 1, 2018
ISBN9781908058669
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Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus is a British-Jamaican poet, performer, editor and educator, born and bred in East London, Hackney. He is one of the world’s first recipients of an MA in Spoken Word education from Goldsmiths University. In 2017 he was awarded 1 of 3 inaugural Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships. Raymond’s poetry has appeared on BBC 2, BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian. He has published two pamphlets, Shapes & Disfigurements Of Raymond Antrobus (Burning Eye, 2012) and To Sweeten Bitter (Outspoken Press, 2017). The Perseverence is his first full collection. He lives in Hackney.

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    I am off to the rather lovely Durham Book Festival this week and their Festival Laureate is Raymond Antrobus, who I was lucky enough to meet when he was Poet of the Fair at this year’s LBF. I am immersing myself in his engaging poetry collection The Perseverance (Penned In The Margins) which won this year’s Rathbones Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award in 2018. In it he explores many issues around communication and loss, along with his deafness. If you get the chance to hear him read, as he has done at Glastonbury, amongst others, do.