Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook75 pages35 minutes
Breaking Silence
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Jacob Sam-La Rose has been described as 'a one-man literary industry'. This was Patrick Neate's comment on the BBC Poetry Season website: 'Passionate about poetry and its power to change people's lives, he's a lesson to us all. He's also a damn fine writer.' Already well-known on the UK performance circuit, Sam-La Rose has also spent many years working with young people in schools and communities, especially around London. So it will come as a surprise to many that Breaking Silence is his first book-length collection of poetry. It is a collection that sits on the threshold between the personal and the profound, with eyes on race and dual heritage; masculinity and manhood; definitions and senses of self. Above all, it's a collection that's invested in the power of the voice, in the work of giving a voice to issues and entities that would otherwise remain silent. It speaks on divides, from the spaces in between. Jacob Sam-La Rose's work is grounded in a belief that poetry can be a powerful force within a community, and that it's possible to combine the immediacy of poetry in performance with formal rigour and innovation on the page. 'Poetry that is…fresh, vivid and masterly in its evocation of contemporary Britain' -Choman Hardi & Martyn Crucefix, PBS Bulletin, on Communion (Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice).
Unavailable
Related to Breaking Silence
Related ebooks
The Dream in the Next Body Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReenactments Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bavino Sermons Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Los Angeles Review No. 23 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTHOU Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5At the End of Sleep Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsa naked bone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlarum Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This Is Still Life: Poems: The Mineral Point Poetry Series, #8 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Suiza Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingslike a solid to a shadow Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Waterbaby Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Field Theories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Flyover Country: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMorning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All Roads Lead to Blood Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Dangerous Place Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA New African Elite: Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTransparent City Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Hundred Silences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnother Last Day: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spawn Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blackberry Heaven: a Novel in Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe River Twice: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProcession of Shadows: The Novel of Tamoga Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProtection from Erasure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYear of the Rat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Kids: Winner of the 2021 Costa Book of the Year Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lemon Hound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Poetry For You
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things We Don't Talk About Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Favorite Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Waste Land and Other Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Carrying: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Breaking Silence
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
2 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best poetry books of this century so far. Tender, wild, playful, heartful.