Karen McCarthy Woolf

Unsafe (MP3-Download)

A Poetry Book Society Choice Ungekürzte Lesung. 100 Min.
Sprecher: McCarthy Woolf, Karen

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Produktbeschreibung

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE The third collection from T. S. Eliot Prize and Jhalak Prize-shortlisted poet, essayist and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf 'A work of intense epiphany' ROGER ROBINSON 'As urgent as it is meditative and thought provoking' PRETI TANEJA 'Suspenseful, inventive and empathetic' ELIZABETH-JANE BURNETT ____________________________________________________ A disenchanted walk through the afterlives of colonialism across London and LA, Unsafe illuminates the effects of capitalism on those who live at its sharp end. Situated in the midst of a reckoning with a politics of enclosure, Unsafe is an immersive meditation on place, the body, nature and the self. Whether it's via tattoos, trees or the totemic quality of cats, McCarthy Woolf pulls us into the processes of gentrification and class division with an immediacy that makes them impossible to ignore. A moving, critical and fiercely intelligent epic weaving together poetry, documentary and lyric essay, Unsafe is an interrogation of what it means to be a citizen and testimony to the remaining spaces we can call free. ____________________________________________________ 'One of the most intellectually daring writers of our generation' MONA ARSHI 'McCarthy Woolf possesses a rare, uncanny power' KIT FAN

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Poetry
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526667021
• Artikelnr.: 75375155

Autorenporträt

Born in London to English and Jamaican parents, Karen McCarthy Woolf FRSL is a poet, editor, essayist and librettist. Her novel in verse, Top Doll, was a Guardian Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. As a postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar at UCLA she was the inaugural poet in residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights. In 2025, she won a Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award and the Jerwood Prize for Poetry (England).

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Unsafe is a work of intense epiphany. McCarthy Woolf deploys a tactical use of space to express a complex twenty-first-century politics of place. As poetry it helps us process and cope with the pressures of the modern world. A revelation