Poetry that moves through diaspora, myth, philosophy, ecology, language and the fault lines of the contemporary world.
Elmi’s debut full-length collection brings hip-hop’s music into conversation with British myth, Somali oral history, philosophy and the lived experience of diaspora. The collection includes the poem that won the 2021 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize.
A searingly forthright debut pamphlet exploring migration, multilingualism, race, family, religion and masculinity. Selected as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice.
Three collections accompany the national tour.
An elegiac and politically charged collection confronting oppression, imperialism, war, grief, cultural survival and the defiant possibilities of resistance.
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A collection confronting authorship, instruction and ownership, reclaiming language from the forces that seek to automate, narrow or control it.
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A collaborative collection by Samatar Elmi and Sam Telford: twenty-six poems shaped by exchange, precarity, friendship and the strange economies surrounding creative work.
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A forthcoming collection.
Ekphrastic Meditations on Honoria Brown’s “Nightmares” Series, co-written with Honoria Brown and Will Moorfoot.
A stage play commissioned by Fio Theatre, Cardiff, reimagining Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Selected journal and anthology appearances, with the original publications shown at a consistent scale.
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