A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn
Author/Uploaded by Ben Okri
Contents Cover Other Titles Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents Unknown Hour how many ways Finding the Present slept badly liberty A Shakespeare Portrait Notre-Dame Is Telling Us Something A New Dream of Politics closed, still open The Unknown Hour Convergence lines on a drawing outside the wedding everest hamlet a little song in a temple in seoul convergence Obama Midday africa is a reality no...
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Contents Cover Other Titles Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents Unknown Hour how many ways Finding the Present slept badly liberty A Shakespeare Portrait Notre-Dame Is Telling Us Something A New Dream of Politics closed, still open The Unknown Hour Convergence lines on a drawing outside the wedding everest hamlet a little song in a temple in seoul convergence Obama Midday africa is a reality not seen a broken song decolonisation on race The Insider manetho’s books siwah boko haram Amnesty at Forty revolution Dusk a history of new forms revelations of saint time cosmosis mother dance for mirabella dance of the new born ballet of the unseen shaved head poem Invocation Hour the angle based on a translation Diallo’s Testament the rohingyas breathing the light invocation for the shrine 4 lines towards a love poem Grenfell Tower, June 2017 walk in a moonlight wonder About the Author Landmarks Cover Cover Title Page Table of Contents Start Copyright Print Page List i iii iv v vi viii ix xii 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 Also by Ben Okri FICTION The Famished Road The Freedom Artist A Prayer for the Living Every Leaf a Hallelujah Astonishing the Gods The Last Gift of the Master Artists ESSAYS The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling First published in the UK in 2021 by Head of Zeus Ltd Copyright © Ben Okri, 2021 Production editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Other Press LLC, except in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. For information write to Other Press LLC, 267 Fifth Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10016. Or visit our Web site: www.otherpress.com The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: Okri, Ben, author. Title: A fire in my head : poems for the dawn / Ben Okri. Description: New York : Other Press, [2022] | “First published in the UK in 2021 by Head of Zeus Ltd.” Identifiers: LCCN 2022012674 (print) | LCCN 2022012675 (ebook) | ISBN 9781635423082 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781635423099 (ebook) Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry. Classification: LCC PR9387.9.O394 F47 2022 (print) | LCC PR9387.9.O394 (ebook) | DDC 821/.914—dc23/eng/20220419 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022012674 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022012675 Ebook ISBN 9781635423099 a_prh_6.0_142549201_c0_r0 I went out to the hazel wood, because a fire was in my head. W. B. Yeats CONTENTS Unknown Hour how many ways A new poem for the American edition Finding the Present slept badly liberty A Shakespeare Portrait Notre-Dame Is Telling Us Something A New Dream of Politics closed, still open The Unknown Hour Convergence lines on a drawing outside the wedding everest hamlet a little song in a temple in seoul convergence Obama Midday africa is a reality not seen a broken song decolonisation on race The Insider manetho’s books siwah boko haram Amnesty at Forty revolution Dusk a history of new forms revelations of saint time cosmosis mother dance for mirabella dance of the new born ballet of the unseen shaved head poem Invocation Hour the angle based on a translation Diallo’s Testament the rohingyas breathing the light invocation for the shrine 4 lines towards a love poem Grenfell Tower, June 2017 walk in a moonlight wonder Unknown Hour HOW MANY WAYS A new poem for the American edition How many ways can a world be Destroyed, she asked sceptically. He drew a breath in the darkness Of the day after FINDING THE PRESENT An extract The present moment began with fire And still it burns; it began with water, And still they drown on the margins of Europe. It began with air
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