I Am Nobody's Nigger by Dean Atta

By Dean Atta

Progressive, reflective and romantic, I Am Nobody's Nigger is the robust debut assortment through one of many UK's most interesting rising poets. Exploring race, identification and sexuality, Dean Atta stocks his point of view on relatives, friendship, relationships and London lifestyles, from riots to one-night stands.

'Go Dean Atta. communicate the reality. Tweet the reality. add it. allow it ring out over the electronic area and strike on the center of the offline instant and disconnected.' Lemn Sissay

'Dean Atta's poetry is as sincere as fact itself. He follows no pattern; he seeks no favours ... past black, past white, past immediately, past homosexual, so I say. Love your eyes over those phrases of fact. you can be uplifted.' Benjamin Zephaniah

'Dean Atta is the Gil Scott Heron of his generation' Charlie darkish

'Righteous and forceful' Peter Tatchell

'One of the major lighting in London's poetry scene ... strong reflections on race, id and sexuality' Huffington put up

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I sat and waited for you to leave. Ain’t I gon’ see you no more? How can you stay? The southern question of travel makes a joyful noise and moves slowly in awareness. Now we can speculate on the relay of our common activity, make a circle round our errant roots. Dancing is what we make of falling. Music is what we make of music’s absence, the real presence making music underneath. I’m exhausted so my soul is rested. | 23 Ralph Lemon was born in Alternative, Mississippi. Like many alternatives of Mississippi he was schooled in a chain of monastic launchpads, reading underconceptual repair, making arrangements and the theory of repercussion.

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