The Epic of Cader Idris by Elmi, Samatar humour & misc.

The Epic of Cader Idris by Elmi, Samatar humour & misc.Author: Elmi, Samatar Poetry Published on 7 November 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Poetry) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 112 pages 197 x 131 x 14 122g The debut collection from an electrifying new talent a poet of philosophical depth, searching intellect, and lyric grace'A daring, ambitious pleasure to read' ROGER ROBINSONIntimate and epic, dark and profound, interweaving hip hop beats with the mythology of the British Isles,

the banality of evil: she had lived through them all

Sent out to investigate a string of crimes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYNew in paperback: an exhilarating

In perfectly honed sentences

It's a memoir about Lamya figuring out their sexuality and gender identity and thinking it through their religion - loosely punctuating the book with stories from the Quran

Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life

Yet as his career begins to flourish

of refugees and questions of motherhood

fades as her friend's memory does

of forgiveness by one of today's most fearless and truthful interpreters of the human heart

By turns ambitious and self-destructive

brutal – a madcap funhouse with heart