
Afterhours
by Inua Ellams
Title:
Afterhours
Author:
Inua Ellams
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
144 pages
Publisher:
Nine Arches Press
ISBN-13:
9781911027164
EAN:
9781911027164
Publication Date:
14/04/2017
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
326
Dimensions (mm):
222 x 149 x 13
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
In 2015, Inua Ellams was poet in residence at the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London. His #Afterhours project took him on a voyage of cultural translation and transposition through time and place, to the heart of the libraries'' rare books collection, and through his own life’s story as he selected poems published during each year of his life, from birth to the age of 18.In return, Ellams opens up a captivating and potent dialogue between poems, writing a diary and intricately-crafted poems of his own in conversational response to the poems he selected from the Poetry Library collections. Here, for the first time together, are the collected #Afterhours poems alongside the re-discovered poems which inspired them and the diary entries which follow this journey. In Ellams’ meticulous hands, this becomes an entire narrative in its own right, compelling and magnetic, drawing parallels of displacement, language and reclamation, and showing poetry’s great capacity to be a powerful amplifier of human experience.













