Author: Shane McCrae

Award winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dant...

VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Shane McCrae was born to a white mother and a Black father. At eighteen mon...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2020'Out of personal history, out of the history of an enduringly fractured nation, and out of the deep history...

A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time' GuardianShane McCrae, one of the most powerful voic...

VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 2023A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his ...

'Beautifully up-to-date, old-fashioned work, where the dignity of English meters meets, as in a mosh pit, the vitality - and often the brutality - ...

'In McCrae's hands, poetry is reclamation. It is also transport: writing a way out and through' Kate Kellaway, Guardian 'Confirms McCrae as one of ...