Songbook: Collected Works
English
By (author): Joshua Idehen
The poet laureate of UK jazz. The Guardian
One of the most important writers working today. Dr Obaro Ejimiwe aka Ghostpoet
Joshua Idehen's collected works has been a long time coming. Songbook comprises verses from Mercury-nominated and MOBO-winning albums by Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming, alongside watershed poems of spoken word legend, newly captured in book form. From Poejazzi and Benin City to a string of supreme collaborations, Idehen's impact resonates far and wide across the landscapes of poetry and jazz/electronica. Cross-examining colonialism, Brexit Britain, masculinity, mental health and ways of healing, his writing is an essential provocation, a comedy roast, an intervention, a cannonball from which no one is safe, least of all himself.Songbook feels like a large, black, tattered flag, running at enemy hordes, screaming, Its on. Roger Robinson
A few Idehen songs before bedtime will leave you feeling revolutionary. Leone Ross
A writer whose poems leap from the page. Idehens indomitable spirit shines through in Songbook. Yomi Sode
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Will deliver when available. Publication date 24 Oct 2024