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Belling the Leopard

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley
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  • ISBN 9781780377742
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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In her debut collection, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley asks what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone. The poems criss-cross the Atlantic, beginning in the 1850s. The voices of Caribbean returnees to the west African coast mingle with those of west African recaptives, German missionaries, and kidnappers. The collection pays keen attention to the past only to illuminate what people can become to each other in the present. In the Glasgow sequence a group of university students discover the freedoms of student halls. In the Hebridean sequences old friends recognise a late-blooming love after decades apart. In other poems a woman consults her scars. Weary of searching outward, women drop anchor in themselves. A couple finds grounding in the non-human world that surrounds them. Going back in search of belonging proves futile only because connection was there all along. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
About Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley grew up in Victoria, Cameroon, and has lived between Scotland, Italy and Germany for forty years. She has an M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics from Manchester University and is a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy, studying post-traumatic growth.

She was joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize in 2024, and her first book-length collection, Belling the Leopard (Bloodaxe Books, 2026), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet Radical Pairings (Ignitionpress, 2023) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. She's received an Edwin Morgan Second Life Award (2020), the RSL Sky award (2021) for creative nonfiction, and a Hawthornden Foundation Residency, in Bologna, Italy. The Scottish Poetry Library selected her poem 'How to Eat Frogs' for Best Scottish Poems (2021). In 2023, a sequence of her poems was Highly Commended in the Poetry Business’ International Poetry and Pamphlet Competition. Her poetry film, Paradise Engines was commissioned by Scottish Poetry Library and the Obsidian Foundation as part of the Africa in Motion Festival (2021).

She has brought multi-modal performances of her work to venues including the HAU, Berlin (2018), the Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, (2018), the Literary Colloquium Berlin (2019),and Lateral North's The World That Is Shaping Our COAST (2023) in Glasgow.

Clementine’s short fiction has been in the final selection for the Amsterdam Open Book Prize, First Pages Award, Bristol Short Story competition, the Miles Morland Award, the Esalen Emerging Writers Award, and the Bridport Flash Fiction Competition.

She writes regular reviews, short-form fiction and nonfiction pieces for WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund. She's a non-fiction editor at Bending Genres and a Lector for the Royal Literary Fund Reading Round (2025) in Edinburgh.

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