{"title":"Inua Ellams","description":"Inua Ellams was born in 1984 in Nigeria and lives in London. He is a Word \u0026amp; Graphic Artist who constantly strives to merge the two disciplines. His work in both fields is known for its rich imagery and attention to detail. Inua is influenced equally by classic literature and hip-hop culture; his poetry fuses archaic language and sentence structure with contemporary diction, loose rhythm and rhyme. His pamphlet \u003cem\u003eThirteen Fairy Negro Tales\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Flipped Eye in 2005.","products":[{"product_id":"afterhours","title":"#Afterhours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"textnormal mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003eIn 2015,\u003cstrong\u003e Inua Ellams\u003c\/strong\u003e was poet in residence at the Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre in London. His #Afterhours project took him on a voyage of cultural translation and transposition through time and place, to the heart of the libraries' rare books collection, and through his own life’s story as he selected poems published during each year of his life, from birth to the age of 18. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"textnormal mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003eIn return, Ellams opens up a captivating and potent dialogue between poems, writing a diary and intricately-crafted poems of his own in conversational response to the poems he selected from the Poetry Library collections. Here, for the first time together, are the collected \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"textnormal mobile-undersized-upper\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e#Afterhours\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"textnormal mobile-undersized-upper\"\u003e poems alongside the re-discovered poems which inspired them and the diary entries which follow this journey. In Ellams’ meticulous hands, this becomes an entire narrative in its own right, compelling and magnetic, drawing parallels of displacement, language and reclamation, and showing poetry’s great capacity to be a powerful amplifier of human experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nine Arches Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34397707337,"sku":"9781911027164","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/Nine_Arches_Press_-_Afterhours.jpg?v=1752240307"},{"product_id":"intertitles","title":"Intertitles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntertitles\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of work situated at the intersection of writing and the visual arts. The anthology aims to explore their confluence and is conceived in response to a twofold observation: the increased presence of written, spoken and performed language in the work of visual artists and the simultaneous increase in visibility and circulation of the work and voices of writers in the visual arts arena.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together a substantial and significant collection of work, the anthology recognises that both writers and artists are attracted to the possibilities of language as a material. Through essays, performance texts, scores, poetry and more, \u003ci\u003eIntertitles\u003c\/i\u003e plots a course through contemporary writing practices and lends perspective to the question of why this might be of particular interest at this moment in time. In art as in poetry, meaning is made in the very conditions of the encounter itself. The knowledge produced is not instructive or strictly informational but subjective and relational. Artists build the worlds that viewers may inhabit temporarily in the moment of their becoming. The physicality of these temporary utopias, however, is frequently realised in the contested spaces of our museums and galleries. This anthology asks if poetry, and the world it is capable of building outside of these normative structures, is poised to be the most constitutive form of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePutting poetry into the social milieu, as a shared goal of artists and writers, might be understood as a gesture towards a truly radical reimagining.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39936525172814,"sku":"9781913513139","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/original_fc41171c-99d8-42bf-8360-98af060ed85a.png?v=1752241444"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/inua-ellams\/charlotte-prodger.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}