In Search of Equilibrium
Published on 28. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-1-911027-68-3 (ISBN)
Description
Theresa Lola's debut poetry collection In Search of Equilibrium is an extraordinary and exacting study of death and grieving. Where the algorithms of the body and the memory fail, Lola finds the words that will piece together the binary code of family and restart the recovery program. In doing so, these unflinching poems work towards the hard-wired truths of life itself - finding hope in survival, lines of rescue in faith, a stubborn equilibrium in the equations of loss and renewal.
"Theresa Lola's poems never fail to surprise with her breath-taking ability to create unexpected imagery; they never fail to move as she laments the last years of a loved one; and they never fail to delight with the transformative and healing power of poetry to create beauty." - Bernardine Evaristo
"Theresa Lola's poems never fail to surprise with her breath-taking ability to create unexpected imagery; they never fail to move as she laments the last years of a loved one; and they never fail to delight with the transformative and healing power of poetry to create beauty." - Bernardine Evaristo
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Language
English
Place of publication
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United Kingdom
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911027-68-3 (9781911027683)
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Theresa Lola is a British Nigerian Poet, born in 1994. She was joint-winner of the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2017 Bridport Poetry Prize. In 2018 she was invited by the Mayor of London's Office to read a commissioned poem at the unveiling of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, alongside Sadiq Khan and the Prime Minister. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4 'Woman's Hour' and Radio 3 'The Verb' and featured in ASOS Magazine as part of the Octavia Collective. She is an alumna of the Barbican Young Poets Programme.