Home Is Not A Place by Johny Pitts

Home Is Not A Place by Johny Pitts

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking A book I will return to again and again Bernardine Evaristo A gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century

’This beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking fusion of poetry and photography offers us layers of society, the self, the subconscious and Britishness from a Black perspectiveIt’s a book I will return to again and again’ Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

’Home is Not a Place has echoes of The Sweet Flypaper of Life but to compare them would do this work a disservice. It is a thing of brilliance, with its own immersive energy, pulling the reader in and allowing them to wander around the world of Black Britain created on these pages. In the authors’ hands, the quotidian becomes transcendent. Robinson’s words are as careful as they are masterful; Pitt’s casual gaze is warm and conversational. This is a book I have been waiting for’ Caleb Azumah Nelson, Costa Book Award-winning author of Open Water

‘Rich and evocative … Pitt’s photos capture the beauty of Black British culture’ Dazed

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Praise for Afropean by Johny Pitts

Winner of the Jhalak Prize

'A revelation' Owen Jones

'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with blackness and paints it into something new, confident and lyrical' Afua Hirsch

A Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019

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Praise for A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson

WINNER OF THE TS ELIOT POETRY PRIZE 2019

WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020

'Ranging from the most breath-taking poems about the Grenfell Tower fire to the most exquisitely moving poems about the premature birth of his son, who had to fight for his life in an incubator. His poems are deep, mature, moving and inventive.' Bernadine Evaristo for New Statesman

Roger Robinson won the 2019 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry and the 2020 RSL Ondaatje prize for A Portable Paradise. Roger has received commissions from The National Trust, London Open House, BBC, The National Portrait Gallery, V&A, INIVA, MK Gallery and Theatre Royal Stratford East, where he was also an associate artist.

Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcaster. He is the curator of the European Network Against Racism award-winning Afropean.com, the author of Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, and with Roger Robinson, Home Is Not A Place. In recognition of his work, he has received the Jhalak Prize, the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, and the European Essay Prize. The recipient of the inaugural Ampersand / Photoworks Fellowship, his photography has been exhibited at Foam (Amsterdam), E-Werk (Freiburg), and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago).

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ISBN 13	9780008469511
ISBN 10	0008469512
Title	Home Is Not A Place
Author	Johny Pitts
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2022-09-29
Number of pages	160
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