The Epic of Cader Idris
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:14th Mar '25
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 14th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
With a watchful eye on the minutiae of nature's cycles of life and death, and a profound connection to the land and language that make and unmake our histories, Elmi's poems shine with grace and blaze with defiance.
With music at its core, Samatar Elmi's The Epic of Cader Idris’s themes resonate across history, mythology, philosophy and consciousness. The result is an expansive book that maintains a constant tune in the key of displacement - a daring, ambitious pleasure to read -- ROGER ROBINSON
Samatar seamlessly blends influences from Somali oral history, Ovidian tales and Homer's Odyssey ... Cathartic, musical, emotionally satisfying as well as erudite * POETRY BOOK SOCIETY *
Elmi's whose plangent lyrics disguise a sharp bite * GUARDIAN, Best recent poetry *
Samatar Elmi is engaged in the timeless project that is at poetry’s root; that of bringing disparate consciousnesses into dynamic, thrilling, relation across boundaries of time and space -- KAYO CHINGONYI
ISBN: 9781526675200
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
112 pages