Home Is Not A Place

Home Is Not A Place
Johny Pitts, Roger Robinson
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Hardback
h221 x 170mm - 160pg
29 Sep 2022 UK
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9780008469511
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' Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking . . . A book I will return to again and again' Bernardine Evaristo ' Masterful . . . A thing of brilliance' Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water A gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century What is Black Britain? In 2021, award-winning poet Roger Robinson and acclaimed photographer Johny Pitts rented a red Mini Cooper and decided to follow the coast clockwise in search of an answer to this question. Leaving London, they followed the River Thames east towards Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. Too often, that is where the history told about Black Britain begins and ends - but Robinson and Pitts continued out of London, following the coast clockwise through Margate to Land' s End, Bristol to Blackpool, Glasgow to John O' Groats and Scarborough to Southend on Sea. Here, the authors found not only Black British culture long overlooked in official narratives of Britain, but also the history of Empire and transatlantic slavery to which every Briton is tethered. Home Is Not a Place is the spectacular result of the journey they documented: a free-form composition of photography, poetry and essays that offers a book-length reflection upon Black Britishness - its complexity, strength and resilience - at the start of a new decade.
' This beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking fusion of poetry and photography offers us layers of society, the self, the subconscious and Britishness from a Black perspective. It' 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-Praise for Afropean by Johny PittsWinner 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 HirschA Guardian, New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019-Praise for A Portable Paradise by Roger RobinsonWINNER OF THE TS ELIOT POETRY PRIZE 2019WINNER 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' Afropean: Notes from Black Europe was published last year to critical acclaim, and was recently awarded the 2020 Jhalak Prize. As a photographer, Johny has had work published by Cafe Royal Books and produced essays for the Guardian, The New York Times, Artangel and Arts Council England. He has been a TV presenter on MTV, BBC, and ITV1. His debut photographic exhibition will place his work alongside that of Vivian Meier and Alec Soth at Foam Amsterdam this September. Johny is currently developing a TV documentary for the BBC.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008469511
Published: 29 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: William Collins
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 221mm
Width: 170mm
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 530g
Pages: 160

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