Accolades

Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019

Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019

Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize

About the Book

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 book explores themes of loss, contested language, and praise, with elegies for the poet's father sitting alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience.

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