Description
When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said: ‘There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face today…That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.’
As part of a fifty year anniversary and celebration of his visit, this anthology gathers poets from both sides of the Atlantic to address the challenges set out by Dr King. It’s a shock to think how little has changed, and that Martin Luther King could well be speaking right here, right now. In the spirit of Dr King and his work as a humanitarian and activist, this anthology brings together poems that offer powerful testimonies to the urgent issues Dr King defines and represents the polyphony of voices that speak in resistance to our continuing problems of racism, poverty and war.
The incredible selection of non-white poets from both sides of the Atlantic in this book needs to be seen to be believed, and features Verve Festival alumni such as Moniza Alvi, Daljit Nagra, Imtiaz Dharker, Vahni Capildeo, Sarah Howe, Mimi Khalvati, Bernardine Evaristo, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Shazea Quraishi, Sandeep Parmer, Roger Robinson, Rishi Dastidar & Raymond Antrobus, and many more that we’d love to feature in future!
Price £12.00
ISBN: 9781780373928
Date: 11th November 2017
Format: Paperback
Extent: 224 pp
POETRY Anthology
