{"product_id":"i-am-evidence-9781780376561","title":"I Am Evidence","description":"\u003cb\u003eCourtney Conrad's powerful work interrogates the tensions within Caribbean migration, gender-based violence and national politics. \u003c\/b\u003eMigrating from Kingston as a teenager, she is unflinching in her attempts to capture the vibrancy and violence of her experiences in both the UK and Jamaica. Her poetry draws together subversive diasporic imagery, national political commentary and shatteringly personal narrative in its exacting response to the political corruption and violence she witnessed as a young girl in Jamaica in the wake of its colonial subjugation under the British Empire. The themes of her work stretch across state- and gender-based violence, religion, raw bodily introspection and lush cultural memorabilia that reimagines the warmth and blood of both her homes. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Am Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the 2022 \u003ci\u003eMslexia\u003c\/i\u003e Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition judged by Imtiaz Dharker. It was also the winner of the 2023 Michael Marks Poetry Award and includes some work which won her an Eric Gregory Award in 2022. It is her debut pamphlet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCourtney Conrad\u003c\/b\u003e is a Jamaican poet who now lives in London. Her debut pamphlet \u003ci\u003eI Am Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloodaxe Books\/Mslexia, 2023) was the winner of the 2022 \u003ci\u003eMslexia\u003c\/i\u003e Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition judged by Imtiaz Dharker. It was also the winner of the 2023 Michael Marks Poetry Award and includes some work which won her an Eric Gregory Award in 2022. She received a Bridport Prize Young Writer Award in 2021. She was shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e Poet's Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize, Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and \u003ci\u003eAesthetica\u003c\/i\u003e Creative Writing Award's Poetry Prize, and was longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMagma Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBath Magg\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetry Birmingham Literary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an alumna of the London Library Emerging Writers Programme, MPK, Obsidian, Griots Well Collective, Roundhouse Poetry Collective, and Barbican Young Poets.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloodaxe Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50563924197650,"sku":"9781780376561","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_106493d1-0706-4dac-b983-5a372b34ca8d.jpg?v=1731872153","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-am-evidence-9781780376561","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}