The New Carthaginians

-In this book, Nick Makoha has found an otherworldly, visionary voice and diction that arrest you from the first page and never let you go.- Jason Allen-Paisant, Winner of the TS Eliot Prize

An expansive new collection from one of the UK-s most daring and celebrated poets

In The New Carthaginians, time - and with it the world - is out of joint. A hijacked plane lands at Entebbe International Airport in 1976, triggering the crisis that will lead to Idi Amin-s Uganda becoming a pariah state and, within a few years, to the young Nick Makoha-s flight from the country. A mysterious writer daubs poetic slogans on the walls of late--70s New York City, signing them SAMO-. Three characters who are also one - the Poet, a Black Icarus and a resurrected Jean-Michel Basquiat - journey through a time that is both our own and not, watching TV, discussing art and literature and tucking their wings into their jackets on the way to airport security.

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