Description
Slingshot is the debut poetry collection from Andrew Ogun, exploring the tension between where you are and where you want to be.
Andrew explains 'I feel like society, both consciously and unconsciously, tries to reduce people into predetermined and defined categories. Slingshot has allowed me to break free from those boxes and return to base. Many people know me as a musician, some know me as an activist, others know me for my job, others know me on a more personal and intimate level but poetry is where I started. Slingshot has been a process of healing but also a process of unmasking and showing the world what really happens in my inner life.'
Debut poetry from an outspoken new talent.
About the Author
Andrew Ogun is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on poetry, music and creative direction. Born in Italy, he came to the UK from Nigeria aged five as an asylum seeker with his mother and his two sisters. Ogun is now the Agent for Change at the Arts Council of Wales, and the main organiser for Black Lives Matter Gwent.
Reviews
A distinctive new voice... engages with hard-hitting themes from the get-go-including suicidal ideation in the opening poem-and also reflects on generational trauma and slavery.
Ultimately, however, the mood is one of resistance and determination.
-- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *Book Information
ISBN 9781739660956
Author Andrew Ogun
Format Paperback
Page Count 56
Imprint Lucent Dreaming
Publisher Lucent Dreaming
Weight(grams) 74g
