Finalist for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a flowering of literary poets in the twentieth century; right up to thirty of the most exciting contemporary Amharic poets working both inside and outside the country.
These poems ask what it means to be Ethiopian today, part of a young fast-growing economy, heirs to the one African state which was never colonised, but beset by deep political, ethnic and moral problems. Join the #songfromtrees virtual launch tour on our YouTube channel, for new videos from contributors every day between 8th - 13th June 2020.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
304 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2020-05-28 |
| ISBN |
9781784109479 |
