Awards
Costa Poetry Award
2009 Shortlist
The Broken Word by Adam Foulds
Judges: "This heart-stopping story about the Mau Mau uprising brings hidden conflicts of conscience, race and class to the surface in a brutally compelling narrative."
The Broken Word is a delicate and powerful poetic sequence that charts a young man's progress through a dark period in British colonial history - the Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya. With language and imagery that feels utterly contemporary, and subject matter - tribal violence and subsequent retribution - that seems almost Homeric, Foulds gives the narrative all the febrile energy of classical drama, re-charged and re-imagined.
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