{"product_id":"mapping-the-future-9781780376714","title":"Mapping the Future","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMapping the Future\u003c\/em\u003e offers new work by all 30 writers supported by \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Works project\u003c\/em\u003e, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode, and Karen McCarthy Woolf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, the level of poets of colour published by major presses in the UK was less than 1%. By 2020, it was over 20%. \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Works Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, an initiative spearheaded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, played a significant role in this change. Supporting 30 poets over a twelve-year period, \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Works\u003c\/em\u003e produced an unprecedented number of prizewinners, including the Forward Prizes, T.S. Eliot Prize, Ted Hughes Award, Somerset Maugham Award, Dylan Thomas Prize, Rathbones Folio Prize, and \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Works\u003c\/em\u003e has become the most successful collective ever formed in British poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMapping the Future\u003c\/em\u003e is not just a magnificent anthology of some of the best UK poets; it is also an exploration of how poetry in Britain has become much more inclusive over the past 15 years: what has been won, and what is still being fought for. As well as poetry, the anthology also includes fierce essays re-drawing the map of British poetry by 10 of the 30 poets, touching on the most significant topics of our time. This anthology offers a timely insight into British poetry and how the voice of the 'other' continues to take centre-stage in pivotal times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMapping the Future\u003c\/em\u003e is edited by poet Karen McCarthy Woolf, editor of the second two Ten anthologies in \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Works\u003c\/em\u003e series, with Dr Nathalie Teitler, director of \u003cem\u003eThe Complete Works\u003c\/em\u003e, with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMapping the Future\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a groundbreaking anthology of poetry and original essays offering fresh and daring literary perspectives from a new generation of outstanding British poets. It represents a landmark moment in the history of poetry. - Bernardine Evaristo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47425339425004,"sku":"9781780376714","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781780376714.jpg?v=1774768206","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/mapping-the-future-9781780376714","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}