The Madman in this House by Ishaq Imruh Bakari Adnan al Sayegh and some that I worked

and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem

–Patience Agbabi

and enters the heart of darkness: loss

to the black honeycomb of a Colombian emerald mine and sunset-pink of the Emerald City

or a shout comes up to the window

The Madman in this House by Ishaq Imruh Bakari Adnan al Sayegh and some that I workedIshaq Imruh Bakaris fourth collection begins with the story of the Negro of Banyoles, whose stuffed remains were displayed in European museums for nearly 170 years, and ends with a celebration of the life and music of the Jamaican jazz musician Coleridge Goode. In between, the book explores the histories, geographies and the ironic impossibility of being black in our time. From Grenfell, Guantanamo and Gaza, to the monsters of empire and neoliberalism