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WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZE
WINNER OF THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

''In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in these pages mix a technically assured, sonically resonant, surface with a profoundly evocative, scrupulously integrated core. This book is a seismic event; its vibrations will be felt for a long time to come.'' Kayo Chingonyi


Victoria Adukwei Bulley's debut collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one's inner life' and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, your silence will not protect you'. The poems teem with grace and dignity, are artful in their shapes, sharp in their intelligence, and possessing of a good ear, finely attuned to the sonics that fascinate and motivate the w

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 2 June 2022
      ISBN-13 9780571370337
      978-0571370337
      ISBN-10 0571370330
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZE
      WINNER OF THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE
      SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE
      POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

      ''In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in these pages mix a technically assured, sonically resonant, surface with a profoundly evocative, scrupulously integrated core. This book is a seismic event; its vibrations will be felt for a long time to come.'' Kayo Chingonyi


      Victoria Adukwei Bulley's debut collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one's inner life' and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, your silence will not protect you'. The poems teem with grace and dignity, are artful in their shapes, sharp in their intelligence, and possessing of a good ear, finely attuned to the sonics that fascinate and motivate the w

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