In Nearby Bushes by Kei Miller
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize 2020. Longlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet - the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is both possible to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by murder.
'[Kei Miller's voice] speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority' - Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978 and has written several books across a range of genres. His 2014 collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection while his 2017 Novel, Augustown, won the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Prix Les Afriques, and the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde. He is also an award-winning essayist. In 2010, the Institute of Jamaica awarded him the Silver Musgrave medal for his contributions to Literature and in 2018 he was awarded the Anthony Sabga medal for Arts & Letters. Kei has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. He has taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Royal Holloway and Exeter. He is the 2019 Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor to the University of Iowa and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Author photo © Christine Fourie. Kei Miller has a page on the Poetry Archive website, where you can listen to recordings of his poetry and access other useful resources. Click here.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784108458 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784108456 |
| Title | In Nearby Bushes |
| Author | Kei Miller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Derek Walcott Prize 2020, Short-listed for The Polari Prize 2020 |
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