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Anansi, the trickster god and Spiderhero of West African folktales, is the spinning voice at the hub of Come Down Nansi. Here the eight-legged one pits wits against larger creatures, and in the guise of uncle and auntie, leaves the ceiling to engage with mythic beginnings, trans-atlantic trade, migration and metropolitan life. Along the way Anansi goes walkies with eight dogs in Hyde Park, cops the lead role in Swan Lake and reshuffles the books of Prospero. With Man to Pan and Limbo Dancer in Dark Glasses, this new cycle forms an orchestrated trilogy, Weblines, where Agard explores what he sees as three powerful Caribbean metaphors of transfiguration: the steeldrum (spider-pan with its webbed concave belly), the limbo dancer, as spider-limbed god spinning cosmic bridges; and Anansi, the transforming Spider, weaving old continents in mythopoetic webs.
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Poet, performer, anthologist, John Agard was born in Guyana and came to Britain in 1977. His many books include eight from Bloodaxe, From the Devil's Pulpit (1997), Weblines (2000), We Brits (2006), Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems (2009), Clever Backbone (2009), Travel Light Travel Dark (2013), Playing the Ghost of Maimonides (2016) and The Coming of the Little Green Man (2018). He is the winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2012, presented to him by The Queen on 12 March 2013. He won the Casa de las Americas Prize in 1982, a Paul Hamlyn Award in 1997, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2004. We Brits was shortlisted for the 2007 Decibel Writer of the Year Award, and he has won the Guyana Prize twice, for his From the Devil's Pulpit and Weblines. The Coming of the Little Green Man is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. He lives with the poet Grace Nichols and family in Sussex; they received the CLPE Poetry Award 2003 for their children's anthology Under the Moon and Over the Sea (Walker Books).
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- PublisherBloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1852244801
- ISBN 13 9781852244804
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
- IllustratorKitamura Satoshi
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