A poet of truth and rage, heartbreak and joy' Max Porter'It's simply
stunning. Every image is a revelation' Terrance Hayes What is it like to
grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary
school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because 'you
fit the description of a man' - and where it is possible to walk two
and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching
the ground ?In Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography
to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys
in twenty-first century Peckham.
He contemplates the ways in
which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and
gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded,
near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London
youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their
lives. Above all, this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet,
and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it.
As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: 'I have never
loved anything the way I love the endz.'
Poor - Caleb Femi
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