{"product_id":"poor-by-caleb-femi-9780141992150","title":"Poor","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection explores the lives of young Black boys and the architecture that shapes them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because 'you fit the description of a man'? A place where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePoor\u003c\/em\u003e, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham. He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage. He writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbove all, this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet, and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it. As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: 'I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46516042334444,"sku":"9780141992150","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14723483482238.jpg?v=1748913721","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/poor-by-caleb-femi-9780141992150","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}