samatar elmi

Samatar Elmi is an Obsidian Fellow and flipped eye press associate poetry editor. His poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Prairie Schooner, Magma, Iota. He'll be reading from his new book, The Ballad of Cader Idris.

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With music at its core, Samatar Elmi's The Epic of Cader Idris's themes resonate across history, mythology, philosophy and consciousness. The result is an expansive book that maintains a constant tune in the key of displacement - a daring, ambitious pleasure to read -- ROGER ROBINSON

 

Samatar seamlessly blends influences from Somali oral history, Ovidian tales and Homer's Odyssey ... Cathartic, musical, emotionally satisfying as well as erudite ― POETRY BOOK SOCIETY

 

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