Archipelagos by Philp, Geoffrey

Archipelagos

This collection is a call to arms that opens out the struggle for human survival in the...
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Author: Geoffrey Philp
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Archipelagos by Philp, Geoffrey

Archipelagos

$208.88

Archipelagos

$208.88
Author: Geoffrey Philp
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This collection is a call to arms that opens out the struggle for human survival in the epoch of the Anthropocene to remind us that this began not just in the factories of Europe but in the holds of the slave ships and plantations of the Caribbean. No natural world was more changed than the West Indian islands by sugar monoculture - and as the title poem begins: "At the end of this sentence, a flood will rise/ and swallow low-lying islands of the Caribbean". Historically, "the debris of empire that crowd our shores" connects to the "sands of our beaches / littered with masks and plastic bottles." Philp's powerful and elegant poems that span past and present make it very clear that there cannot be a moral response to the climate crisis that is not also embedded in the struggle for social justice, for overcoming the malignancies of empire and colonialism and against the power of global capitalism -the missions of the West that had and have at their heart the ideology of white supremacy. These are poems of wit and anger, but also of personal intimacy - the vexed relationship with a violent father - and line after line of the shapeliest poetry - in sound, in rhythm and the exact choice of word.

Author: Geoffrey Philp
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 04/13/2023
Pages: 62
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.20w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9781845235505

About the Author
Geoffrey Philp was born in Jamaica. He is the author of seven earlier poetry collections, two books of short stories and two novels, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize nominated Benjamin, My Son. Philp's poems and short stories are widely published, appearing in Small Axe, World Literature Today, The Caribbean Writer, Wheel and Come Again, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, and The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. In 2022, he was awarded the Silver Musgrave Medal for outstanding merit in literature.

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