Jacob Sam-La Rose has been described as 'a one-man literary industry'. This was Patrick Neate's comment on the BBC Poetry Season website: 'Passionate about poetry and its power to change people's lives, he's a lesson to us all. He's also a damn fine writer.' Already well-known on the UK performance circuit, Sam-La Rose has also spent many years working with young people in schools and communities, especially around London. So it will come as a surprise to many that Breaking Silence is his first book-length collection of poetry. It is a collection that sits on the threshold between the personal and the profound, with eyes on race and dual heritage; masculinity and manhood; definitions and senses of self. Above all, it's a collection that's invested in the power of the voice, in the work of giving a voice to issues and entities that would otherwise remain silent. It speaks on divides, from the spaces in between. Jacob Sam-La Rose's work is grounded in a belief that poetry can be a powerful force within a community, and that it's possible to combine the immediacy of poetry in performance with formal rigour and innovation on the page.
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'Poetry that is - fresh, vivid and masterly in its evocation of contemporary Britain.' --- Choman Hardi & Martyn Crucefix, PBS Bulletin.
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Jacob Sam-La Rose was born in London in 1976. He was managing director of a web development studio before becoming a freelance writer and editor. He is the Artistic Director of the London Teenage Poetry SLAM, and an editor for flipped eye press. He also facilitates a range of literature-in-education, creative writing and spoken word programmes through schools, arts centres and other institutions. His work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Identity Parade: New British & Irish Poets (Bloodaxe), Poems For Love (Penguin), I Have Found a Song (Enitharmon Press), Red (Peepal Tree), Learn Then Burn: The Ultimate Poetry Guide for the High School or College Classroom (Write Bloody) and Michael Rosen's A-Z: The Best Children's Poetry from Agard to Zephaniah (Puffin). His pamphlet Communion was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice in 2006. Breaking Silence (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) is his first book-length collection.
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By Ray Melnik
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A friend introduced me to this new collection and I am thankful. Breaking Silence, by Jacob Sam-La Rosa was often personal, and always interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed this poet's view of the world and the personal tales revealed. Even though the stories and experiences that birth the poems may be unique, the feelings are universal. It truly does sit between the personal and the profound. I look forward to reading more of Jacob's work. - Ray Melnik (novelist)USA.
By antony mair
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So much contemporary poetry in the UK is either obscure or over-sensitive that you can easily get the impression of a hothouse plant. Not so here: Jacob Sam-La Rose has a fresh voice and considerable technical expertise. His poems come from the streets where he grew up and I found it invigorating to read such excellent poems, full of both energy and sensitivity, from someone who has grown up with an Afro-Caribbean background. More, please.
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