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Didicoy
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- Book Synopsis
- Didicoy offers a window into the colourful, precarious world of a multiracial Romany family, and focuses on characters at the often-untold margins of society. Blending lyricism with formal experimentation, these poems explore what it is to belong. Clear-eyed and outspoken, Didicoy has something of the impact of a contemporary Cathy Come Home.The collection is wonderfully peopled, with an unforgettable portrait of a mother and a powerful and important depiction of life in a children's home. Writing like this, which combines real expressive skill with material which must be expressed, really reminds us what poetry is for. - Jonathan Edwards, winner of the Costa Poetry Award
- About The Author
- Karen Downs-Barton is an Anglo-Romani writer who, after a peripatetic childhood including times in state care, now lives in Wiltshire. Winner of the Cosmo Davenport-Hines prize (2021) and Creative Future silver medallist (2022) she is a PhD candidate at King's College London, exploring identity through minority languages and multilingualism in entertainment industries.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781914914379
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- smith|doorstop Books, (01 March 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 30
- Weight
- 79 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 146 x 11 mm
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