Songs We Learn from Trees

An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry
Herausgeber: Tebeje, Alemu; Beckett, Chris

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Produktbeschreibung

The first ever anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of this beautiful country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781784109479
• ISBN-10: 1784109479
• Artikelnr.: 59172461

Autorenporträt

Chris Beckett was born in London but grew up in Ethiopia. His second collection of poems, Ethiopia Boy, was published by Carcanet/Oxford Poets in 2013. Sketches from the Poem Road, a collaboration with Japanese artist Isao Miura, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2015. Alemu Tebeje is an Ethiopian journalist, poet, lyric writer, and human rights campaigner who left Ethiopia in the early 1990s and now lives next to Grenfell Tower in London. He runs the website www.debteraw.com and his poems have been published in Amharic, Chinese, and English.