The Perseverance is the multi-award-winning debut by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.

Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience.

Winner of the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer Award
Winner of the Ted Hughes Award
Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
Shortlisted for the Griffin Prize
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize
Shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Prize
Poetry Book of the Year - The Guardian
Poetry Book of the Year - The Sunday Times
Book of the Year - The Poetry School

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Siddhartha Bose is interviewed by Poet in the City for the event Urban Myths: Countries of the Body. Urban Myths: A series of New Audiences events bringing together an eclectic range of contemporary poets, including poetry legends, award-winning published poets and some of the UK's most exciting new voices.

Siddhartha Bose on his poetry

Luke Wright

Melanie Roberts interviews Siddhartha Bose at Poet in the City's Art & The Machine event, part of the Curious Futures Festival.

Interview with Siddhartha Bose at the Art & The Machine event

A recording from recent performance at Ferment Festival, Bristol Old Vic

Citadel by Hannah Silva

On Thursday 26th April 2012, the poetry publisher Penned in the Margins co-hosted the Selected Poems in the V&A Reading Rooms. Ross Sutherland, Roddy Lumsden, Emily Critchley and Siddhartha Bose.

Emily Critchley - Dream Sequence

Roddy Lumsden - Pulegone

Audio contributions to this podcast courtesy of
Scanner: http://www.scannerdot.com
Joe Banks http://rorschachaudio.wordpress.com/
Erik Bünger http://www.erikbunger.com/
Steven Fowler and Ben Morris http://vimeo.com/44804238
Nathan Walker http://www.nathan-walker.co.uk/about.html
James Wilkes http://www.voiceworks.org.uk/1011/poets1011/james_wilkes_1.html
Hannah Silva http://www.hannahsilva.co.uk/

Today's immediate suggestion was brought to you by Oliver Braid of the Ellie & Oliver Show oliverbraid.tumblr.com

The parasite in this episode was written by Theodoros Chiotis with voice over by Lee Ward and sound by Sid Volter www.sidvolter.co.uk

Theodoros Chiotis’ work has appeared in Adventures in Form, Catechism, Tears in the Fence, CANCAN, Otoliths, Bad Robot Poetry et al.

The song that we played today was Celine, Yola Fatoush http://www.yolafatoush.co.uk/

12 October Podcast: EVP weekender, Perception and the Suspension of Disbelief

In this week's edition Mercy's long time pal and collaborator Ross Sutherland responds to the Biennial theme of hospitality, by examining advertising as an uninvited guest into our personal and domestic lives. http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/

Introduced by Vanessa Bartlett

to contact the show tweet @vanessabartlett 
or drop us an email on info@mercyonline.co.uk

Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. He was included in The Times’s list of Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008. He has three collections of poetry: Things To Do Before You Leave Town (2009), Twelve Nudes (2010), and Hyakuretsu Kyaku (2011), all published by Penned In The Margins. Ross is also a member of the poetry collective Aisle16 with whom he runs Homework, an evening of literary miscellany in East London. 

9th November podcast: Ross Sutherland on Advertising in the Year 2042

Penned in the Margins creates publications and performances for people who are not afraid to take risks.

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Penned in the Margins

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