If I Gather Here and Shout Punks Eliot Prize and the inaugural

Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize

geographies of longing

for the transcription of every event

This striking book continues Adnan’s meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life

Rebecca May Johnson

If I Gather Here and Shout Punks Eliot Prize and the inauguralFunto Omojola If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba divinatory rituals into a hospital room. Incantatory verses accumulate alongside personal and historical figures of illness and death to illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context. With intimate knowledge of how ancestral memory aches and sings in the body, Funto Omojola invokes a lamenting chorus