From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map
of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader
on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales,
showing the whole country from a fresh perspective. This extensive and
ground-breaking anthology - with its sudden forks in the road, and its
roads not taken - stops off in the Highlands and Islands, skirts the
North East coast from Whitley Bay to the sands of Bridlington, wanders
lonely through the Lake District and Yorkshire, climbs the mountains of
Wales before descending to the Black Country and Southern England. Along
the way it takes in lochs and landmarks from Glasgow's George Square and
the Angel of the North to the London Eye and the Long Man of Wilmington.
An alternative A to Z of the nation, a new poetic guide, the book
enables us to look again at the UK's local and regional landscapes and
the poets who pass through them. Out of Bounds is a definitive anthology
that brings together new and established black and Asian writers and
places them firmly on the map of what is great and not so great about
Britain. Includes: Shanta Acharya, John Agard, Patience Agbabi, Moniza
Alvi, James Berry, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Vahni Capildeo, Merle Collins,
Fred D'Aguiar, David Dabydeen, Imtiaz Dharker, Bernardine Evaristo,
Khadijah Ibrahiim, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jackie Kay, Tariq Latif, Sheree
Mack, Jack Mapanje, E.A. Markham, Daljit Nagra, Grace Nichols, Louisa
Adjoa Parker, Michelle Scally-Clarke, Seni Seneviratne, John Siddique,
Lemn Sissay, Dorothea Smartt, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Benjamin
Zephaniah, and many others. The book has also inspired an innovative
digital project linking poetry, place and identity in the 21st century
developed for schools.
