Garden Physic

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Legris, Sylvia

Gardening & Landscape Design

Granta Poetry

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY 
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation\nRefractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois' of poems begins paying homage to Amos Tutuola, innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author, and ends with a speech towards modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.\nThe collection turns around the long middle poem, using the geographical site of the Congo river as a lens for considering the pillaging and dislocation of societies through history, honing-in on the specific colonial and post-colonial histories of the area. He welds these to contemporary instances of ecological damage through mining for tin and cobalt.\nFierce, compelling, and full of astrological reckoning, this book is a 'savage enunciation':\n'this is the Congo 
vertiginous with derangement 
with its foul & delimited hygiene 
with its "weaver bird nests" 
with its sprawling grasslands 
with its "ghostly voltage" as flares from old oil rigs\nthus our intelligence forcibly blunted 
our thought stream injured as culpable integument 
within this compound negation 
terror persists 
snaking its way through interior suppression'

Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

Literature & Fiction

Alexander, Will

Poetry

Heritage Aesthetics

Anthony Anaxagorou

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