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WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 What does it mean to have 'heritage', and how do we perform or undo it? In these daring and sonorous poems, Anaxagorou conducts a researched unpacking of two countries whose dividing lines of a colonial past are still visible and felt. Uniquely engaged with the complexities of Cyprus and the diasporic experience, these poems map both an island's public history alongside a person's private reckoning. They offer a ferocious and uncompromising look towards the damaging historical structures that have led to now. Fearless, intensely honest and hopeful, Heritage Aesthetics merges Anthony's gift for performance and his brilliant experimentation with form to create a vivid insistence to communicate a self in the world.

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Heterogeneous is the defnitive anthology of Anthony Anaxagorou s poetry - an extensive and revised selection taken from several previous volumes. The winner of the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award, Anaxagorou offers the reader an insight into his poetry career with work spanning from 2009 to 2016. These seven instructive years highlight the making of a poet who has now subsequently achieved international acclaim as a thinker, writer, polemicist and activist.

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A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family. Anaxagorou 'speaks against the darkness', tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces, and celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet's Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic. Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric grace, he writes, 'I'm your father & the only person keeping you alive.' Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize A Poetry Society Recommendation A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year One of The Telegraphs Best Poetry Books of 2019

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A stunningly crafted debut short story collection, The Blink That Kills the Eye takes a poetic torch to the shadows of daily life, illuminating the characters, situations, emotions and dilemmas that pour into even the most ordinary existences.From building sites to prison cells... from the birth of love to the last moments of breath... poet Anthony Anaxagorou expertly navigates through the tangled nets of invisibility, desperation and power to bring us time-defining tales of tragedy and hope - commenting on the irony of our shrinking capacity to really see ourselves or each other in a world increasingly defined by appearances and dangerous preconceptions.While each story stands affectingly on its own, Anaxagorou also weaves an affecting chronology, the lives of the characters overlapping and intertwining as they develop individually.Exploring themes of invisibility, alienation, abuse, and loss, this brave and touching short story collection shows the poet-educator at his soul-stirring best.

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Nascent is a new poetry anthology from Out-Spoken Press showcasing four young, up and coming BAME poets. The book features poems by Jess Rahman-González, Mukahang Limbu, Tice Cin, and Maria-Sophia Christodoulou. The editors aimed to highlight young poets from underrepresented backgrounds in this anthology. Editor Anthony Anaxagorou says: “The poems in Nascent circumnavigate what it means to be young, to feel at times both present and absent in an ever-changing world. They grapple with issues which have had to be encountered way too early in life, and they do so with courage, sophistication and invention.’ “ Jess Rahman-González is a queer, disabled poet and theatre-maker. They are co-parent of Clumsy Bodies, an LGBTQIA, disabled-led art collective. Jess is currently a member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and playwright-in-residence at DYSPLA. Mukahang Limbu is a 17-year-old Nepalese writer based in Oxford. He is a three-time Foyle Young Poet, a SLAMbassador, Oxford Young Writer 2017-18, and has won the First Story National competition. His poems have been published in England: Poems from a School, an anthology written by migrants. He was the recipient of the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry 2019. Tice Cin is a poet and writer from Tottenham, North London. An alumnus of Barbican Young Poets, her work has been commissioned by venues including St Paul’s Cathedral and Battersea Arts Centre. A Literary Fiction awardee for Spread The Word’s London Writers Awards scheme, she is currently finishing her first novel. Maria-Sophia Christodoulou is a London based poet, completing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her family originate from Cyprus where the hybridity of culture and tradition greatly influence her work. She will be pursuing a career in teaching English Literature in schools, where she hopes to make writing and performing poetry a stronger part of the curriculum.

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_________________________How to Write It: Tell Your StoryThis book is a masterclass in the craft of writing and poetry from one of Britain's most celebrated poets and educators, T.S. Eliot Prize nominee Anthony Anaxagorou. Taking readers on a personal journey through his early life and school years, through to his relationship with literature, education poetry and writing, this book is filled with tips, anecdotes and publishing advice for anyone interested in getting their work seen. From Anthony's first slam win to the evolving British poetry scene, this book will provoke readers into thinking about their writing more carefully - be it a poem, short story or novel - and help them finally get their book out into the world. This book is essential reading for taking your work to the next level, and is introduced with an inspirational foreword by Sunday Times bestselling author, Candice Carty-Williams. _________________________'This brilliant little book [...] a guide to writing pra

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Tackling conflicts both internal and external, The Blink That Killed the Eye is a moving reflection on how those rendered invisible by society struggle to regain control over their lives.While each story stands affectingly on its own, Anthony Anaxagorou also weaves an affecting chronology - the lives of the characters overlapping and intertwining as they develop individually.Exploring themes of invisibility, alienation, abuse, and loss, this brave and touching short story collection shows the poet-playwright at his soul-stirring best.

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