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Kei Miller

Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. He read English at the University of the West Indies and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. His work has appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Snow Monkey, Caribbean Beat and Obsydian III. His first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was short-listed in 2007 for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize. His first poetry collection, Kingdom of Empty Bellies, was published in March 2006 by Heaventree Press; his second, There Is an Anger That Moves, was published by Carcanet in October 2007. He is also the editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology. He has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands and a Vera Ruben Fellow at Yaddo, and currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.

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Title:: Things I Have Withheld (MP3)
Written by:: Kei Miller
Read by:: Kei Miller
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 7 hours 27 minutes
MP3 size:: 329 MB
Published:: July 01 2021
Available Date:: July 01 2021
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781867544364
Genres:: Non-fiction; Biography; History; Lifestyle - Wellbeing
Publisher:: Bolinda/Canongate audio

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Things I Have Withheld is an extraordinary collection of essays from the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller.

‘I know how to tell stories, but how does one begin to tell silence?’ In this moving, critical and lyrical collection of essays, Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it – to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit – the crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Liam Neeson, Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women’s tears, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice. With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why – our actions, defence mechanisms, imaginations and interactions – and those of the world around us.