{"product_id":"9780141992150","title":"Poor","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Femi, Caleb, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/07\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 160 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141992150\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because 'you fit the description of a man' - and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbove all, this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet, and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it. As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: 'I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37296346333337,"sku":"9780141992150","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780141992150.jpg?v=1606327323","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780141992150","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}