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Songs we learn from trees
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- Book Synopsis
- Finalist for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a flowering of literary poets in the twentieth century; right up to thirty of the most exciting contemporary Amharic poets working both inside and outside the country. These poems ask what it means to be Ethiopian today, part of a young fast-growing economy, heirs to the one African state which was never colonised, but beset by deep political, ethnic and moral problems. Join the #songfromtrees virtual launch tour on our YouTube channel, for new videos from contributors every day between 8th - 13th June 2020.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781784109479
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Classics, (28 May 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 381 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 23 mm
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