{"product_id":"9781780376714-mapping-the-future","title":"Mapping the Future","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Complete Works\u003cbr\u003eGround-breaking anthology of poets of colour from The Complete Works, the most successful collective ever formed in British poetry, who have helped to bring about a more diverse and representative publishing landscape. The book includes new poetry by all 30 poets together with highly personal and politically engaged essays by 10 of the writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2008 the level of poets of colour published by major presses was less than 1%. By 2020 it was over 20%. The Complete Works Poetry – an initiative spearheaded by Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo – played a significant role in this change. Supporting 30 poets from 2008 through to 2020, The Complete Works produced an unprecedented number of prizewinners, including the Forward Prizes (3), T.S. Eliot Prize (2), Ted Hughes Award (2), Somerset Maugham Award, Dylan Thomas Prize, Rathbones Folio Prize and \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e Young Writer of the Year Award. TCW Fellows have also gone on to judge every major poetry award, and to take on significant roles in academia and translation, publishing over 40 collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Complete Works has become the most successful collective ever formed in British poetry. Mapping the Future offers new work by all 30 writers the programme has supported, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode and Karen McCarthy Woolf. It also includes highly personal and politically engaged essays re-drawing the map of British poetry by 10 of the 30 poets, touching on some of the most significant topics of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMapping the Future\u003c\/em\u003e is not just a magnificent anthology of some of the best UK poets, it is also an exploration on how poetry in Britain has become much more inclusive over the past 15 years: what has been won, and what is still being fought for. This anthology offers a timely insight into British poetry and how the voice of the ‘other’ continues to take centre-stage in pivotal times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMapping the Future\u003c\/em\u003e is edited by poet Karen McCarthy Woolf, editor of the second two \u003cem\u003eTen\u003c\/em\u003e anthologies in The Complete Works series, with Dr Nathalie Teitler, director of The Complete Works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41029655298145,"sku":"9781780376714","price":13.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32011760.jpg?v=1736345828","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781780376714-mapping-the-future","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}