"The Island That Is Hard to Find in English" is a poem by British-Jamaican poet, spoken-word artist, educator, and editor Raymond Antrobus. It is read by Antrobus in the video below, which was animated by Maya Horton. The subtitles are by Phillip Louden-Carter and the music by Jonny Whalton.
Antrobus, a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellow, is the author of the chapbook To Sweeten Bitter (Outspoken Press, 2017), Shapes & Disfigurements of Raymond Antrobus (Burning Eye Books, 2012) and, forthcoming, his as-yet-untitled debut collection about deafness, the Diaspora, and language, which is to be published by the London-based Penned in the Margins.
Raymond Antrobus on FaceBook
Raymond Antrobus Profiles at Brain Mill Press and Poetry Foundation
(My thanks to Peter Hayoe and Helen Dewbery for the link to the short.)
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