The Perseverance

Winner of the Ted Hughes Award

Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize

A Poetry Book of the Year at The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and Poetry School

In this extraordinary debut collection, award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus interrogates anger, grief, illness, vulnerability, deafness, and race through a distinctive engagement with language, tongues, listening, and sound.