Poor by Caleb Femi Paperback Book 9780141992150

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman Financial Times Guardian Observer Rough Trade and the BBCShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeLonglisted for the Jhalak PrizeRestlessly inventive brutally graceful startlingly beautiful a landmark debut GuardianOh my God hes just stirring me Destroying me Michaela CoelA poet of truth and rage heartbreak and joy Max PorterTakes us into new literary territory impressive Bernardine Evaristo New Statesman Books of the YearIts simply stunning Every image is a revelation Terrance HayesWhat is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because you fit the description of a man and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1444 homes without ever touching the groundIn Poor Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials tribulations dreams and joys of young Black boys in twentyfirst century Peckham He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that...