Cannibal Av Safiya Sinclair

<p><b>A beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair that draws on our colonial history and speaks powerfully to our present moment.</b><br><b><br>Shortlisted for Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021 </b><br><b>A <i>Guardian </i>most anticipated book for 2020</b><br><br><b>''Safiya Sinclair bursts onto the shelves with this richly powerful debut collection'' – <i>Scotsman</i></b><br><br>Colliding with and confronting Shakespeare''s <i>The Tempest</i> and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair''s <i>Cannibal </i>beautifully evoke the poet''s Jamaican childhood and reach beyond to explore history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. <br><br>Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke. <i>Cannibal</i> marks the arrival of a thrilling and essential lyrical voice.<br><br><b><i>''Cannibal </i>is nothing less than an entrancing debut that reveals the teeming intellect and ravishing lucidity of a young poet in full possession of her literary powers.'' – Major Jackson</b></p>