The Perseverance

Name: The Perseverance
ISBN: 9781911343691

Griffin Poetry · 2019 · ShortlistRathbones Folio · 2019 · WinnerRathbones Folio · 2018 · ShortlistRathbones Folio · 2017 · Shortlist

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Penned in the MarginsJuly 5, 2018PoetryISBN 9781911343691

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Griffin Poetry Prize	2019	Shortlist
Rathbones Folio Prize	2019	Winner	“For poetry of formal beauty and emotional courage that opens the experience of deafness, grief, and Black British identity to every reader.”
Rathbones Folio Prize	2018	Shortlist
Rathbones Folio Prize	2017	Shortlist

About This Book

Raymond Antrobus's debut full poetry collection explores deafness, grief for his father, and the intersecting identities of being Black and British and d/Deaf. Named after a pub in Hackney where his Jamaican-born father drank, the collection won the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2019 and the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.

About the Author

Raymond AntrobusGB

Raymond Antrobus is a British-Jamaican poet born in 1986 in Hackney, East London. He is deaf and has been open about his experience of growing up d/Deaf in a hearing world. He studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is one of the co-founders of the poetry night Chill Pill. Read more →