{"product_id":"poor-1","title":"Poor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChosen as a Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, Rough Trade and the BBC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Jhalak Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Restlessly inventive, brutally graceful, startlingly beautiful ... a landmark debut'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Oh my God, he''s just stirring me. Destroying me''  \u003c\/b\u003eMichaela Coel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A poet of truth and rage, heartbreak and joy''  \u003c\/b\u003eMax Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Takes us into new literary territory ... impressive''\u003c\/b\u003e  Bernardine Evaristo, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman (Books of the Year)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''It''s simply stunning. Every image is a revelation''  \u003c\/b\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because ''you fit the description of a man'' - and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePoor\u003c\/i\u003e, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham. He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbove all, this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet, and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it. As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: ''I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.''\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57309654581630,"sku":"NW9780141992150","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141992150.jpg?v=1778658287","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/poor-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}