Dans la nuit londonienne, la tour Grenfell brûle, tel un symbole et un signal d'alarme des injustices sociales. Roger Robinson part de ce drame pour évoquer l'exil, la génération Windrush et sa difficulté à faire reconnaître sa citoyenneté britannique, les problématiques identitaires des deuxième et troisième générations. Il rappelle l'histoire des Afro-Britanniques - esclavage, colonisation, migration - pour expliquer les racines des maux, tout en appelant la jeunesse à ne pas en rester prisonnière. Le poète s'interroge également sur le chez-soi, qu'il choisit de tisser au long du chemin de vie en un paradis portatif. En musicien, chef d'orchestre et metteur en scène aguerri, Roger Robinson joue habilement avec les rythmes et les compositions pour inventer un style hybride qui fusionne reportage et poésie. Malgré le ton mordant du poète, ce recueil est un baume qui, devant l'impuissance et l'injustice, place l'humanité et la bienveillance. Il y diffuse, en syncopes, un optimisme grinçant ou une ironie radieuse. De ce sarcasme qui fait le sel de l'oeuvre, l'arrière-goût n'est pas l'amertume, mais la suavité.
Cet ouvrage est le compagnon idéal pour quiconque est sur le point de commencer un cours élémentaire de neuroanatomie ou de neuroscience. Neuroanatomie et neurosciences fournit une introduction conviviale à l'anatomie, à la biochimie, à la physiologie et à la pharmacologie du système nerveux humain en un seul volume, très illustré et succinct. L'ouvrage Neuroanatomie et neurosciences permet, en moins de 200 pages, d'aborder les éléments principaux de la neuroanatomie et surtout les aspects de la physiologie et de la physiopathologie du système nerveux central et du système nerveux périphérique.Le lecteur peut ainsi très rapidement trouver les voies de transport de l'information nerveuse mais également d'avoir un aperçu rapide de cette anatomie pourtant si compliquée.En abordant ainsi sous une forme très illustrée tous ces aspects complexes, l'ouvrage devient une aide précieuse pour tous ceux qui s'intéresse à cette discipline.
The Birmingham-born, Turner Prize-nominated artist Hurvin Anderson is best known for his brightly painted, densely detailed landscapes and interior scenes, which are drawn from his own photographs, sketches and personal recollections particularly those relating to his upbringing in the Afro-Caribbean community in the Midlands, as well as more recent trips to the Caribbean. Anderson s luscious paintings have hybridity at their heart. A tug-of-war plays out between abstraction and figuration, nature versus the manmade, beauty and menace, and his British and Jamaican heritage. Born in the United Kingdom as a member of the Jamaican diaspora, Anderson relates to the Caribbean as both insider and outsider, aware of the mythmaking that the idea of lost or future paradise generates. Anderson, the youngest of eight children, grew up listening to his family reminisce about their lives in the Caribbean before they moved to England in the 1960s, an emotional through-line to his work, suggesting the longing and loss that keeps certain geographies alive in us. This book, Anderson s first major monograph, has been carefully curated by the artists himself and includes paintings, sketches, source material and ephemera, studio shots, and a series of black-and-white drawings created exclusively for this publication. The volume also features an in-depth and deeply considered essay by art historian Catherine Lampert, a text by poet and writer Roger Robinson, and an illustrated chronology.
''Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking ... A book I will return to again and again'' Bernardine Evaristo ''Masterful ... A thing of brilliance'' Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water A gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century What is Black Britain?
In 2021, award-winning poet Roger Robinson and acclaimed photographer Johny Pitts rented a red Mini Cooper and decided to follow the coast clockwise in search of an answer to this question. Leaving London, they followed the River Thames east towards Tilbury, where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. Too often, that is where the history told about Black Britain begins and ends - but Robinson and Pitts continued out of London, following the coast clockwise through Margate to Land''s End, Bristol to Blackpool, Glasgow to John O''Groats and Scarborough to Southend on Sea. Here, the authors found not only Black British culture long overlooked in official narratives of Britain, but also the history of Empire and transatlantic slavery to which every Briton is tethered.
Home Is Not a Place is the spectacular result of the journey they documented: a free-form composition of photography, poetry and essays that offers a book-length reflection upon Black Britishness - its complexity, strength and resilience - at the start of a new decade.
