In Nearby Bushes E-Book

Kei Miller

• Herausgeber: Carcanet Poetry
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize 2020Longlisted for the 2020 Polari PrizeA Telegraph Book of the Year 2019The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet - the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is both possible to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by murder.

Leseprobe

IN NEARBY BUSHES

KEI MILLER

CONTENTS

Title PageEpigraphHere Where Once Lay The Bodies 1.HERE Translation of a Jamaican CurseThe UnderstoryHere that Was Here Before…Here Where Blossoms the Nightafter Ebony G. Patterson’s ‘while the dew is still on the roses’To Know Green from GreenHere Where Run the Wild DeerHushHere Where Is the CureFor the Sake of SweetnessHere, the Diminishing MilesA Psalm for Gay Boys 2.SOMETIMES I CONSIDER THE NAMES OF PLACES Sometimes I Consider the Names of PlacesThere Was Once a Woman from NowhereSometimes I Consider the Names of PlacesThese Things I Know As Much As YouSometimes I Consider the Names of PlacesPlace name: ORACABESSA –So What Will We Call the Thing Between PlacesSometimes I Consider the Nameless SpacesWhat I Remember Now Is the Circle of ThunderTo Consider the Nearby Bushes 3.IN NEARBY BUSHES I.II.IIII.III.IIIIIIVVVIVII.IVII.IIVIIIIX.IIX.IIIX.IIIXXI.IXI.IIXIIXIII.IXIII.IIXIII.IIIXIV About the AuthorCopyright

IN NEARBY BUSHES

‘… the criminal a get way with a whole heap a badniss and your police neva seem to be able to catch them. Dem always escaping in nearby bushes. Tell them fi go inna the bush and catch them if a so it go.’

JAMAICAN BLOGGER, PAUL TOMLINSON, WRITING TO THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

‘I make a distinction between “the nearby bushes” and “in the nearby bushes”. Perhaps it is my corrupt imagination. “In the nearby bushes” equals concealment, danger, while “the nearby bushes” equals a place of opportunity to do what one wishes to be hidden from others – sex, dispose of waste be it bodily waste or household waste.’

PROF ANTHONY HARRIOTT, DIRECTOR INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE & SECURITY, UWI MONA, JAMAICA

HERE WHERE ONCE LAY THE BODIES

of

Lindel Williams (41 years old, body found September 21, 2007)

Chevaughn White (22 years old, body found December 25, 2011)

Dwayne Jones (16 years old, body found July 22, 2013)

Gary Lewis (age unreported, body found on Dec 6, 2014)

Randy Hentzel (48 years old, body found May 1, 2016)

Harold Nichols (53 years old, body found May 1, 2016)

Tanijah Howell (35 years old, body found February 18, 2017)

James Miller (age unreported, body found May 14, 2017)

Randal Riley (16 years old, body found June 2, 2017)

Christopher Williams (28 years old, body found June 2, 2017)

Desiree Gibbon (26 years old, body found November 26, 2017)

Petrice Portious (21 years old, body found February 26, 2018)

Joyan Myrie (21 years old, body found May 2, 2018)

Kadijah Saunders (9 years old, body found June 5, 2018)

Kimone Campbell (25 years old, body found June 9, 2018)

Omar Earle (40, years old body found June 11, 2018)

Leon Griffith (31, years old body found June 11, 2018)

Dario Yearwood (27 years old, body found September 7, 2018)

Daniel Griffith (37 years old, body found September 7, 2018)

Andrew Haylett (34 years old, body found October 25, 2018)

Monique Brown (23 years old, body found October 25, 2018)

Nancy Hardy (72 years old, body found November 28, 2018)

Barbara Findley (48 years old, body found December 5, 2018)

Demar Stennett (20 years old, body found January 5, 2019)

& these are only some.