AfriCANthology

AfriCANthology

By:: Greg Frankson

Publish:
1 Feb, 22
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Languages:
  • English
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ISBN:
1990086098
ISBN:
978-1990086090
Pages:
296 pages
Dimension:
15.24 x 1.63 x 22.86 cm
Weight:
413 g
Rating:
★★★★★★★★★★
Book Cover:
Paperback, Digital cover (eBook), Audiobook
Reading Price:
$25
Book Availability:
available

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Description:

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada’s most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspects of navigating their unique personal, professional, and artistic paths in Black skin with fearless candour and audacious forthrightness. Unforgettable in its charged emotional potency and stirring in its unrelenting urgency, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets is a stunning tour de force by a celebrated gathering of truthtellers that demands we comprehensively reassess the present and reimagine the future of Blackness in Canada.

Author Details:

A. Gregory (Greg) Frankson (1975-) is the editor of the critically acclaimed AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets (Renaissance Press, 2022) and the author of four poetry collections: Cerebral Stimulation (2006), Lead on a Page (2012), A Weekly Dose of Ritallin (2015), and Cerebral Confections (2021). Greg’s work also appeared in the anthologies Mic Check, That Not Forgotten, The Great Black North, Nothing Without Us Too, and African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century. Greg is a 2012 Canadian national poetry slam champion, a 2013 VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour inductee, and won Best of the Blog 2022 on All Lit Up for the essay "Black Poets Across Canada." He previously was the poet laureate of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership and a poetic commentator on CBC Radio One’s Here and Now Toronto. An educator by training and disposition, Greg courageously shares his story in print, sound, and image in the public realm in order to achieve his personal mission: to present the vision that inspires others to positively change the world. Dundurn Press will publish Greg’s first work of creative nonfiction, Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters, in January 2025.