All The Names Given

[Raymond Antrobus] has built another beautiful paper house which you can spend a very long and deeply satisfying time inside. * Mark Haddon *
Moving deftly between tenderness and violence, hope and grief, praise and lament, this is a deeply evocative collection that will linger in the reader’s mind. * Guardian *
[Raymond Antrobus's] poetry transcends speech, sound, silence, words – and what we are left with, when we close this astonishing book, is the vibration of the emotion on the blank page. * i newspaper *
What a beautiful book Raymond Antrobus has written! I love it. So much pain, so much tenderness, so much music and invention and passion in All The Names Given. Truly, it is terrific. Antrobus has a special gift of making music from stories and giving his lyrics gravity and urgency that’s inimitable * Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic *
In All The Names Given, the essential tension is knowledge. Knowledge of self, knowledge of others. These poems make the sublime leap or union of witness to ‘with-ness,’ so their knowledge is not speculative but holds together, beautiful and fraught, the broken burden of honesty: love. Antrobus is a phenomenal poet * Ishion Hutchinson *
These poems are revelations. In All the Names Given, Antrobus traces a new dimension where the irreducible particularity of self—race and gender, disability and sexuality, ancestry and futurity—buzzes with coded sound, refusing reduction. This collection is so obviously at the forefront of a new canon whose singular and evocative approach to lyricism and imagistic play demonstrates not only the necessity of our multilingual and multimodal realities, but 'the volume of their power,' too. * Meg Day, Author of Last Psalm At Sea Level *
Raymond Antrobus is as searching a poet as you're likely to find writing today. * Kaveh Akbar *
Raymond Antrobus gives a fully human response to our world in its beauty and cruelty expressed with humour, anger, love and music: ‘All The Names Given’ is a unique and crucial contribution to our new poetry. * Ian Duhig *
So much of All the Names Given is this unwrapping of necessary communications: it is a gift of realisations for the reader to explore and come back to again and again. * The Skinny *