Hunchprose

What affirms our humanity enduring beyond our barbarism? Where is home in a world beleaguered by climate crisis pandemic and genocide? Hunchprose is Ranjit Hoskote's fierce poignant testament to these urgencies.The title of this dazzling new collection asserts poetry's claim to be heard above the buzz of data to transform language broken by history into music. Vibrant with linguistic experiment Hunchprose weaves unpredictable patterns celebrates our plural selves. In the erasure of ancient scripts the melting Arctic ice a lion tamer's primal fear we recognize vulnerability and rupture. A dancer's courage a leather worker's revolutionary promise a locksmith's passion for ruins inspire us to redeem ourselves through love doubt hope and dream. Infused with wry humour informed by the wisdom traditions Hunchprose urges us to look at our world and within ourselves with renewed ardour.