Mental Fight

Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far – art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and medicine and, for many of us, the miracle of freedom. But there is also much to regret – racism, intolerance, the destruction of our environment, the reality and the legacy of slavery. In this epic poem, Ben Okri invokes the past to explain the present, and sings out a message of hope. The future is still ours to make. ‘An angry, hopeful, weary, wary, epic reveille to the human spirit’ The Times