Winner of the Ted Hughes AwardWinner of the Rathbones Folio PrizeWinner of the Somerset Maugham AwardShortlisted for the Griffin Poetry PrizeA Poetry Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Poetry SchoolIn this extraordinary debut collection, award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus interrogates anger, grief, illness, vulnerability, deafness, and race through a distinctive engagement with language, tongues, listening, and sound.
In Gaudi\'s Cathedral, he meditates on the id.
In the wake of his father\'s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus\' The Perseverance travels to Barcelona.
It is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find (both individually and as a society) if we fail to understand each other.
Even though, he says, I have not heard / the golden decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and I am able to answer.
The Perseverance is a collection of poems examining a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed.
Receiving information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea.
In Gaudi\'s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God.
In the wake of his father\'s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus\' The Perseverance travels to Barcelona.
It is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find (both individually and as a society) if we fail to understand each other.
Even though, he says, I have not heard / the golden decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and I am able to answer.
The Perseverance is a collection of poems examining a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed.
Receiving information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea.
In Gaudi\'s Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God.
In the wake of his father\'s death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus\' The Perseverance travels to Barcelona.
Winner of the Ted Hughes AwardWinner of the Rathbones Folio PrizeWinner of the Somerset Maugham AwardShortlisted for the Griffin Poetry PrizeA Poetry Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Poetry SchoolIn this extraordinary debut collection, award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus interrogates anger, grief, illness, vulnerability, deafness, and race through a distinctive engagement with language, tongues, listening, and sound
