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The Perseverance
Raymond Antrobus
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The Perseverance
Raymond Antrobus
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*Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019* Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018 * Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award * Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize * The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.
Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet's father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience.
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PoesiaEcho
My ear amps whistle as if singing
to Echo, Goddess of Noise,
the ravelled knot of tongues,
of blaring birds, consonant crumbs
of dull doorbells, sounds swamped
in my misty hearing aid tubes.
GaudĂ believed in holy sound
and built a cathedral to contain it,
pulling hearing men from their knees
as though Deafness is a kind of Atheism.
Who would turn down God?
Even though I have not heard
the golden decibel of angels,
I have been living in a noiseless
palace where the doorbell is pulsating
light and I am able to answer.
What?
A word that keeps looking
in mirrors, in love
with its own volume.
What?
I am a one-word question,
a one-man
patience test.
What?
What language
would we speak
without ears?
What?
Is paradise
a world where
I hear everything?
What?
How will my brain
know what to hold
if it has too many arms?
The day I clear out my dead fatherâs flat,
I throw away boxes of moulding LPs:
Garvey, Malcolm X, Mandela speeches on vinyl.
I find a TDK cassette tape on the shelf.
The smudged green label reads Raymond Speaking.
I play the tape in his vintage cassette player
and hear my two-year-old voice chanting my name, Antrob,
and Dadâs laughter crackling in the background,
not knowing I couldnât hear the word âbusâ
and wouldnât until I got my hearing aids.
Now I sit here listening to the space of deafness â
Antrob, Antrob, Antrob.
âAnd if you donât catch nothing
then something wrong with your ears â
they been tuned to de wrong frequency.â
KEI MILLER
So maybe I belong to the universe
underwater, where all songs
are smeared wailings for Salacia,
Goddess of Salt Water, healer
of infected ears, which is what the doctor
thought I had, since deafness
did not run in the family
but came from nowhere;
so they syringed olive oil
and salt water, and we all waited
to see what would come out.
And no one knew what I was missing
until a doctor gave me a handful of Lego
and said to put a brick on the table
every time I heard a sound.
After the test I still held enough bricks
in my hand to build a house
and call it my sanctuary,
call it the reason I sat in saintly silence
during my grandfatherâs sermons when he preached
The Good ...