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OverviewIf language is music, it is apt that a playlist is a poem. It makes even more sense in The Epic of Cader Idris, coming from Samatar Elmi, a poet whose concerns with the origins of things and the landscape of the margins are expressed in language so lyrical that you could almost miss its politics in its own music: ""almost invisible, like the stencil of words / whispered at the front on a frosty morning,"" as he writes in [Etymologies]. Where Childish Gambino sings ""the algorhythm is perfect,"" Samatar comes with The Algoriddim – after all, everything's better with a dancehall twist, even if snakes are “running rings / all around us”. As with his pamphlet Portrait of Colossus, this collection straddles the colloquial and the humorous, the philosophical and the mundane, always resonant with the quirks of a Yorkshireman of Somali heritage, one who knows the immigrant experience of modern Britain as intimately as he knows the cliffs and dales of his youth. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Samatar ElmiPublisher: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Imprint: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Edition: Edition with numbered copies ISBN: 9781905233878ISBN 10: 1905233876 Pages: 100 Publication Date: 03 October 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsSamatar seamlessly blends influences from Somali oral history, Ovidian tales and Homer's Odyssey... Cathartic, musical, emotionally satisfying as well as erudite ― Poetry Book Society Elmi's plangent lyrics disguise a sharp bite ― Guardian, Best Recent Poetry Samatar Elmi is engaged in the timeless project that is poetry’s root; that of bringing disparate consciousnesses into dynamic, thrilling relation across boundaries of time and space ― Kayo Chingonyi Author InformationSAMATAR ELMI is a poet, PhD candidate, and international education consultant. Winner of the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, his poems have appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Magma, and Iota. His work has also been anthologised in More Fiya (Canongate), Filigree (Peepal Tree), and After Plath (Nine Arches). Samatar’s début pamphlet Portrait of Colossus was a PBS 2021 Pamphlet Choice. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |