Raymond Antrobus

A groundbreaking exploration of deafness by a young award-winning poet—a memoir, a cultural history, and a call to action.

Atravessando história e continentes, estes poemas operam nas entrelinhas. A Perseverança é um livro sobre perda, língua contestada e louvor, onde elegias ao pai do poeta vão lado a lado com meditações sobre a experiência s/Surda....

From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019 Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021 '[Raymond Antrobus] has built another beautiful paper house which you can spend a very long and deeply satisfying time inside.' Mark Haddon 'Moving deftly between tenderness and violence, hope and...

Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds—bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and disruptive, some didn't believe he was deaf at all.

Read by the author, Raymond Antrobus. ‘I became fatherless at 26 and a father at 35 and whenever I look out the living room window I feel myself become the child left alone in the house’ Centred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, Music is a book...