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ALT Propel Issue Three, January 2023, Edited by Rebecca Tamás. Submissions open. 1–30 November 2022
ALT The Alchemist’s Fire: an evening of Caribbean poetry with Poetry London Poetry London and Goldsmiths Writers' Centre present John Agard, Anthony Joseph and Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa By Goldsmiths Writers' Centre
![Essay
SILENCE, SOUND, CEREMONY
The Poetry of m nourbeSe philip
Jason Allen-Paisant
Adefining feature of the work of Trinidadian-Canadian poet and essayist m nourbeSe philip is its concern with sound and silence. These themes relate to the exploration of Atlantic slavery and colonialism: heinous, inaugurating experiences of the African diaspora.
For philip, sound and silence evoke body and language as intertwined concerns. How has the erasure of the languages and stories of enslaved Africans and their descendants worked to produce an ontological erasure of their bodies? These questions span the arc of philip’s work from the early poetry and essays in She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and ‘A Genealogy of Resistance’ (1997), to the book-length poem Zong! (2008).
philip’s work insists on the need for Afroic people to “create, control and [...] understand their own i-mages”. “I-mage” is her term for a language that speaks to “the essential being of the people among whom](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgTenKgWQAE4VgF.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Essay SILENCE, SOUND, CEREMONY The Poetry of m nourbeSe philip Jason Allen-Paisant Adefining feature of the work of Trinidadian-Canadian poet and essayist m nourbeSe philip is its concern with sound and silence. These themes relate to the exploration of Atlantic slavery and colonialism: heinous, inaugurating experiences of the African diaspora. For philip, sound and silence evoke body and language as intertwined concerns. How has the erasure of the languages and stories of enslaved Africans and their descendants worked to produce an ontological erasure of their bodies? These questions span the arc of philip’s work from the early poetry and essays in She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and ‘A Genealogy of Resistance’ (1997), to the book-length poem Zong! (2008). philip’s work insists on the need for Afroic people to “create, control and [...] understand their own i-mages”. “I-mage” is her term for a language that speaks to “the essential being of the people among whom
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