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'This is an amazing collection, not only for a debut but for a poet at any stage. It’s versatile and virtuosic, experimental and moving, complex and culturally important.' – Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other, winner of the Booker Prize, 2019
’It is fascinating, indeed, to follow the Benson poem, whether the poem is playful or serious – or often both, at once! – there is a kind of knowing that’s always unexpected in its unfolding, and always welcome. I love this poet’s work.' – Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, chosen by the BBC as “one of 12 artists that changed the world”
'The language of Dzifa Benson’s poetic universe is bodily & boldly made: sonic, potent and kickingly alive.' – Tishani Doshi, Forward Prize winning author of Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods
'In Dzifa Benson’s poems something that seemed lost is now found, the familiar becomes strange again and we’re guided through a wilderness that blossoms before our eyes as the poet strikes rock after rock of ancestral grief and crystalline revelations stream forth.' – Lorna Goodison, former Poet Laureate of Jamaica
'Monster is the most alive book I’ve read, it makes me cry, laugh and rage. This is an extraordinary debut, its themes are major and urgent: the decolonisation of the mind, and the empowering of the female Black body in European culture that historically has devalued it. The result is an explosive and original masterwork.' – Pascale Petit, author of Mama Amazonica winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize and Laurel Prize for Poetry
Forthcoming October 2024 on Bloodaxe Books
