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NASCENT: A BAME Anthology
Featuring poems from Jessica Rahman-González, Mukahang Limbu, Tice Cin, Maria-Sophia Christodoulou.
Nascent platforms four cutting edge emerging BAME voices in UK contemporary poetry. Poems of migration, family, class, faith and homeland intersect with those of the body and gender identity, to create a complex 21st century poetic. Cinematic, rich and vital.
Nascent platforms four cutting edge emerging BAME voices in UK contemporary poetry. Poems of migration, family, class, faith and homeland intersect with those of the body and gender identity, to create a complex 21st century poetic. Cinematic, rich and vital.
62 pages, Paperback
First published April 22, 2019
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About the author
Anthony Anaxagorou
18 books60 followersAnthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator.
His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, The Rialto and elsewhere. His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts.
His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. It was selected as one of The Telegraph’s and The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2019 and shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize.
He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton.
Anthony is also artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music event held at London’s Southbank Centre, and is founder of Out-Spoken Press, an independent publisher of poetry and critical writing that aims to challenge the lack of diversity in British publishing.
He has toured extensively throughout Europe and Australia and his work has been studied in universities, schools and colleges across Europe and the USA.
His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, The Rialto and elsewhere. His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts.
His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. It was selected as one of The Telegraph’s and The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2019 and shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize.
He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton.
Anthony is also artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music event held at London’s Southbank Centre, and is founder of Out-Spoken Press, an independent publisher of poetry and critical writing that aims to challenge the lack of diversity in British publishing.
He has toured extensively throughout Europe and Australia and his work has been studied in universities, schools and colleges across Europe and the USA.
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February 27, 2021
Favourite poems: I’m Loving It; History Didn’t Give Me A Blueprint; Perhaps It Could Have Been A Sonnet; The Cleaners; Half a day in the first quarter of the day, and Charm Me with Halos, Faith and Singing Priests.
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