Description
About the Author
Emma Dai'an Wright (1986) is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press with the support of the Prince's Trust. She has since published over 500 writers across more than 70 books, including poetry anthologies for adults and children, short stories, and translations. In 2016 The Emma Press won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publishers. She lives in Birmingham. Richard O'Brien is a poet, translator and academic based in Birmingham, UK.
Reviews
'The poems here are united by their explorations of British traditions and, in the present climate, they symbolise something very much needed: togetherness. Poems for each month of the year neatly lead the reader through our annual calendar and in so doing, visit traditions old and new along the way. The voices here are startlingly clear celebrating the ordinary routines we find ourselves in.' Michelle Phillips, Literature Works -- Literature Works * Literature Works *
'I'm not sure it is a response as much as a reminder of what this country is really about. Not the negative ideology, the have and have nots, the simmering hate or a nostalgia for something that never really existed; but a celebration of the huge melting pot of cultures, traditions and oddities that we all can relate to or recognise as being peculiarly British. Family, festivities, rainy days, cooking food, the seaside, bus rides and the pub. The book is more muddy fields and warming soup than it is 'this green and pleasant land', and it's all the more comforting for it.' -- Contrary Life * Contrary Life *
"I think the idea was to create an anthology with an inclusive sense of British identity, perhaps particularly with the feelings of divisiveness with Brexit. The book works its way through the year so you have a few poems for each month of the year and they're all rituals or ceremonies, [whether] attached to a particular region or cultural group... Somebody described it as a patchwork quilt of Britain so all the differences are there but somehow we're all united." Louise Walker * This Is Scilly News *
Book Information
ISBN 9781910139554
Author Emma Wright
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint The Emma Press
Publisher The Emma Press