![]() ![]() ![]() Other titles shortlisted for the Ondaatje prize were Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial and Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris. In 2020, he published How to Write It, a guide to crafting fiction and poetry, with Stormzy’s publishing imprint #Merky Books. The poet’s second collection, After the Formalities, was shortlisted for the 2019 TS Eliot prize. In 2015, he set up Out-Spoken Press, which publishes poetry and critical writing with a focus on voices underrepresented in the publishing industry. Beautiful.”Īnaxagorou runs Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night at London’s Southbank Centre. ![]() ![]() A tour guide, an archive, a personal meditation on belonging. Taylor said Heritage Aesthetics “pushes the confines of form and language to locate a new aesthetic with which to address the legacies of colonisation. Robinson, who won the Ondaatje prize in 2020, said Anaxagorou “lets the narrative of the poems fracture as if somehow there has been a traumatic event, and that fracture became a form by deconstruction of texts and literatures to make comment not only on them but also on the fact that Cyprus has been shaped by 2,000 years of colonial rule”. Ahmed was joined on the judging panel by poets Roger Robinson and Joelle Taylor. ![]()
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