The Way of the Poet
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Nine Arches Press
Publishing:23rd Jul '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 23rd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A memoir and guide on the art of writing poetry in the modern age
“McFarlane’s poems celebrate who he is and where he’s from, never forgetting the sorrow and anger that accompanies what it means to be black and British today.” - Tamar Yoseloff
Part memoir, part meditation on the art of poetry and what it is to be a poet in the modern age, The Way of the Poet by Roy McFarlane is a journal following the daily life in creative practice.
Full of guidance, encouragement and reflections on the personal, political and radical nature of the craft of writing in troubled times, this will be a ground-breaking book from one of the new millennium’s most inspiring and socially-engaged writers.
Praise for Living by Troubled Waters:
“Roy’s poetry has always been about history and liturgy, outrage and melody, meditation and agitation wrapped up in careful metrics of love… His sense of the UK’s black heritage and his insistence that it must be recognized power his sonorous poems. If there is a seer in current poetics, someone who stands before an audience that shouts, ‘preach’ and that person delivers passionate compositions that cry for justice and champion the disenfranchised, destroyed and silenced, then surely, our best candidate is Roy.” - Fred D’Aguiar
“Behold the poet building his house of language on altars to the dispossessed, the underserved, the marginalised, the survivors of empire: you cannot quit such radical urgency. You cannot tune McFarlane’s lyrical anguish or adoration out of your system: it lingers in the blood, like soul music, like good Jamaican Sunday lunch.” - Shivanee Ramlochan
“Roy McFarlane has created one of the most affecting and original explorations of race in modern times.” - Antony Owen
ISBN: 9781916760424
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