The Perseverance
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The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.
Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience.
Editor's Note
Award winner…
“The Perseverance” by Raymond Antrobus won the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize, the first collection of poetry to ever take home the award. The book “uses [Antrobus’] D/deaf experience, bereavement, and Jamaican/British heritage to consider the ways we all communicate with each other. It’s an exceptionally brave, kind book; it seemed, in our atomised times, to be the book we most wanted to give to others, the book we all needed to read,” said the chair of the judges.
Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter (2017, Out-Spoken Press), The Perseverance (2018, Penned In The Margins / Tin House) All The Names Given (2021, Picador / Tin House) and the children's picture book Can Bears Ski? (2020, Walkers Books) A number of his poems were added to the UK's GCSE syllabus in 2022. The BBC Radio 4 documentary Inventions In Sound, which accompanies All The Names Given, was produced by Falling Tree Productions and won a Best Documentary Award at the 2021 Third Coast International Audio Festival.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am off to the rather lovely Durham Book Festival this week and their Festival Laureate is Raymond Antrobus, who I was lucky enough to meet when he was Poet of the Fair at this year’s LBF. I am immersing myself in his engaging poetry collection The Perseverance (Penned In The Margins) which won this year’s Rathbones Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award in 2018. In it he explores many issues around communication and loss, along with his deafness. If you get the chance to hear him read, as he has done at Glastonbury, amongst others, do.