Kei Miller Knihy

"In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Liam Neeson, Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women's tears, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice. With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why - our actions, defence mechanisms, imaginations and interactions - and those of the world around us"--Publisher's description.

The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet - the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is both possible to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by murder.

Driven by atmosphere more than plot, the language is as clear as spring water OBSERVER 20160710 The DAILY MAIL said of his writing 'He is being marketed as a cross between Andrea Levy and Alexander McCall Smith, but he is probably a better writer than either'.

Adamine Bustamante is born in Jamaica, inside one of the islands last leper colonies. When she goes to a Revivalist Church, she discovers her gift of warning. But no one has bothered to warn Adamine that when she migrates to England her prophecies of hurricanes and earthquakes will no longer be respected.

From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy' INDEPENDENT

A powerful poetry picture book from a celebrated contemporary poet and illustrator about the wonder and possibility contained in a single word: let Suppose there was a book full only of the word, let . . . Adapted from a poem called "Book of Genesis" by the celebrated poet Kei Miller and beautifully imagined and illustrated by Diana Ejaita, this provocative and hopeful picture book is an ode to the power of words and of books--of seeing oneself and being seen--and to a world of wonder and possibility.

Pearline ma niezwykły dar - potrafi wyczuwać zbliżające się trzęsienia ziemi i huragany. Na Jamajce, gdzie mieszka, ostrzega ludzi przed różnymi kataklizmami. Gdy przenosi się do Anglii w charakterze "żony na zamówienie", w cywilizowanym świecie nikt nie ufa jej przepowiedniom. Dopiero tajemniczy Pan Pisarz wierzy słowom Peraline. Jednak jego intencje nie są do końca szczere. Pan Pisarz ma nikczemny plan wykorzystania historii z życia dziewczyny.