All the Names Given

Antrobus, Raymond

ISBN 10: 152905950X / ISBN 13: 9781529059502

Published by Picador, 2021

About this Item

No markings or inscriptions. Internally fine. Clean and tight cover, gentle rubbing to the spine ends and the edges, slightest markings to the text block edges. There is no creasing at all to the spine. 83pp. (A splendid song to the poet's selves, as identity is constructed from the complex interplay of familial, racial, and imperial histories.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: All the Names Given
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 152905950X
• ISBN 13: 9781529059502
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Very Good +

About this title

Synopsis

From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021

'[Raymond Antrobus] has built another beautiful paper house which you can spend a very long and deeply satisfying time inside.' Mark Haddon

'Moving deftly between tenderness and violence, hope and grief, praise and lament, this is a deeply evocative collection that will linger in the reader’s mind.' Guardian

Raymond Antrobus’s astonishing debut collection, The Perseverance, won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, amongst many other accolades; the poet’s much anticipated second collection, All The Names Given, continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory.

Throughout, All The Names Given is punctuated with [Caption Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, which attempt to fill in the silences and transitions between the poems, as well as moments inside and outside of them. Direct, open, formally sophisticated, All The Names Given breaks new ground both in form and content: the result is a timely, humane and tender book from one of the most important young poets of his generation.

About the Author

Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter, The Perseverance, All The Names Given and the children's picture book Can Bears Ski? A number of his poems were added to the UK's GCSE syllabus in 2022. The BBC Radio 4 documentary Inventions In Sound, which accompanies All The Names Given, was produced by Falling Tree Productions and won a Best Documentary Award at the 2021 Third Coast International Audio Festival.