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Published | 07 Nov 2024 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 112 |
ISBN | 9781526675828 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Poetry |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
With music at its core, Samatar Elmi's The Epic of Cader Idris's themes resonate across history, mythology, philosophy and consciousness. The result is an expansive book that maintains a constant tune in the key of displacement - a daring, ambitious pleasure to read
ROGER ROBINSON
Samatar seamlessly blends influences from Somali oral history, Ovidian tales and Homer's Odyssey ... Cathartic, musical, emotionally satisfying as well as erudite
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY
Elmi's whose plangent lyrics disguise a sharp bite
GUARDIAN, Best recent poetry
Samatar Elmi is engaged in the timeless project that is at poetry's root; that of bringing disparate consciousnesses into dynamic, thrilling, relation across boundaries of time and space
KAYO CHINGONYI
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