Search results for ""Author Samatar Elmi""
Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Portrait of Colossus
Portrait of Colossus is a searingly forthright début that navigates parenting, masculinity, racism and ambiguities of identity. It articulates, with skill and sly humour, the migrant experience from the perspective of the second generation, the ones who “know [England]/ more than everywhere else/ put together”. Brimming with vulnerability and pitched between the lilt of hooyo's admonitions and Ted Hughes' eye for the natural world, many of the poems reconcile disparate worlds, cultures and identities, firing them with the lyricism of Dawud's Psalms. Samatar seamlessly blends influences from Somali oral history, Ovidian tales and Homer’s Odyssey into a poetics that makes Portrait of Colossus cathartic, musical, emotionally satisfying as well as erudite.
£6.53
Flipped Eye Publishing Limited The Epic of Cader Idris
The Epic ofCader Idrisstraddles thecolloquial and the humorous, the philosophical andthe mundane in languageso lyrical that you could almost miss its politics in itsown music, humming with the quirks one who knowsthe immigrant experience of modern Britain asintimately as the cliffs and dales of his youth.
£18.95
