Rhythmic lyrical poems that embody black music, existence, and tragedy.
The poems in this collection center on the word "dub," which accrues a subtle lyrical connotation throughout its various forms and meanings-to bestow, vest, crown, and also to suspend, reverb, echo, and sever. Dub poetry plays with revealing and concealing, while also pointing the way to the conditions that produce black poetic music. In D.S. Marriott's poetry, tragic catastrophes of current black existence-London knife crime, the Windrush scandal, Grenfell, and deadly race violence-are portrayed as questions of language. To speak this language, as Marriott's poem show, is to take on the forces that cause rupture. Throughout these poems of loss, exile, and obliteration, the poet foresees his downfall and metamorphosis, ultimately realizing too late that he cannot transcend the reverberations and echoes laden with black social death.
| ISBN: | 9781632431219 |
| Publication date: | 8th May 2026 |
| Author: | D S Marriott |
| Publisher: | Omnidawn Publishing an imprint of Omnidawn Publishing, Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 132 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Rhythmic lyrical poems that embody black music, existence, and tragedy.
The poems in this collection center on the word "dub," which accrues a subtle lyrical connotation throughout its various forms and meanings-to bestow, vest, crown, and also to suspend, reverb, echo, and sever. Dub poetry plays with revealing and concealing, while also pointing the way to the conditions that produce black poetic music. In D.S. Marriott's poetry, tragic catastrophes of current black existence-London knife crime, the Windrush scandal, Grenfell, and deadly race violence-are portrayed as questions of language. To speak this language, as Marriott's poem show, is to take on the forces that cause rupture. Throughout these poems of loss, exile, and obliteration, the poet foresees his downfall and metamorphosis, ultimately realizing too late that he cannot transcend the reverberations and echoes laden with black social death.
Letters from the Black Ark features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Letters from the Black Ark is available in Paperback
Letters from the Black Ark was written by D S Marriott and published by Omnidawn Publishing an imprint of Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
Letters from the Black Ark has 132 pages
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