#Afterhours - Softcover

Inua Ellams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911027166 ISBN 13: 9781911027164

Publisher: Nine Arches Press, 2017

In 2015, Inua Ellams was poet in residence at the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London. His #Afterhours project took him on a voyage of cultural translation and transposition through time and place, to the heart of the libraries archive collections, and through his own life s story as he selected poems published during each year of his life, from birth to the age of 18.

In return, Ellams opens up a captivating and potent dialogue between poems, writing a diary and intricately-crafted poems of his own in conversational response to the poems he selected from the library collections. Here, for the first time together, are the collected #Afterhours poems alongside the re-discovered poems which inspired them and the diary entries which follow this journey. In Ellams meticulous hands, this becomes an entire narrative in its own right, compelling and magnetic, drawing parallels of displacement, language and reclamation, and showing poetry s great capacity to be a powerful amplifier of human experience.

About the Author:

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is an award winning poet, playwright and founder of the Midnight Run. Identity, Displacement and Destiny are reoccurring themes in his work in which he tries mixing the old with the new, the traditional with the contemporary. He has published three pamphlets of poetry and several plays. He won an Edinburgh Fringe First award for The 14th Tale, and The Live Canon Prize for Shame Is The Cape I Wear. He has been published in The Poetry Review Summer 2016, Best British Poetry (Salt) 2015, The Salt Book of Younger Poets 2012, Chorus (MTV Books), City State (Penned in the Margins) TEN The New Wave (Bloodaxe), and in magazines such as Poetry Paper, Magma, Pen International, Wasafiri and Oxford Poetry.

• Publisher: Nine Arches Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1911027166
• ISBN 13: 9781911027164
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80