Caleb Femi

'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR NOMINATED FOR THE SKY ARTS POETRY AWARD 2025 Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new poetry collection, The Wickedest. This is a minute-by-minute depiction of a typical night at a legendary monthly house party known as 'The Wickedest'....

Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection explores the lives of young Black boys and the architecture that shapes them. What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because 'you fit the description of a man'?...