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Amnion
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781783787746
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
WINNER of the Forward / Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, Somerset Maugham Award, and Eric Gregory Award
LONGLISTED for the Laurel Prize, Rathbones Folio Prize, and RSL Ondaatje Prize
An extraordinary debut, book-length poem from a significant young thinker on migratory histories, race and colonialism.
What does it mean to be a person of multitudinous countries and heritages? Amnion excavates migratory histories, colonialism and class, moving from England to France, the United States, Spain, Germany, Libya and the Philippines. In this chronicle of a family's history divided by geography and language, Stephanie Sy-Quia explores the reverberations that the actions of one generation can have on the next, through acts of bravery and resistance, great and small.
Simultaneously mapping and undoing ideas of the self, everything here is contested. Undefinable in form, combining aspects of fiction, epic poetry and the lyric essay, and merging classical thought and contemporary life to show the joy in living and art, Amnion's broad intellect and undulating emotional landscape is a testament to the families we are given and those that we choose.
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