# Poor

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- Authors: [Caleb Femi](https://www.bookquiver.com/caleb-femi)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-11-05

## Description

What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because 'you fit the description of a man' - and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground? In Poor , Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham. He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives. Above all, this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet, and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it. As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: 'I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.

## Editions

### Poor

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-216-7
- Published: 2020-11-05
- Language: en_GB

### Poor

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 1 h 41 min
- Narrated by: Caleb Femi
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-467-3
- Published: 2020-11-05
- Language: en_GB

### Poor

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-215-0
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2020-11-05
- Language: en_GB