Home Is Not A Place

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Johny Pitts' Afropean: Notes from Black Europe was published last year to critical acclaim, and was recently awarded the 2020 Jhalak Prize. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.

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. PLEASE NOTE: Concessionary rates apply to under 21s, full time students, registered unemployed and registered disabled – just show us proof of status. They travelled to document and respond to the many manifestations of black British culture, and to present an alternative to media narratives. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist for King Midas Sound and has also recorded solo albums with Jahtari Records.

Roger Robinson won the 2019 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry and the 2020 RSL Ondaatje prize for A Portable Paradise.

Pitts invites you to come in, take a seat and feel right at home - to experience what home means to him - whether you’re flicking through family photo albums, chatting and sharing ideas, or listening to pirate radio playlists from Pitts’ 1980s youth. Their collaboration became Home is Not a Place which has now arrived at The Photographers’ Gallery in Ramillies Street, Oxford Circus. Travelling in a red Mini Cooper, the two men traced the British coast line and dipped into urban, rural and suburban Britain. Home could be a lone beach in the middle of nowhere, or a sun you’ve watched set over the same horizon all your life.S. Eliot Prize 2019, The RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Late last year, I spent sometime in the United States of America, during that time, I went to Puerto Rico for a weekend. We are the structure…We house all our fears, hopes and aspirations, we house the power to make our dreams a reality.

Home is with the person who throughout it all never gives up on you and brings you eternal happiness.

He currently presents Open Book for BBC Radio 4 and a forthcoming Afropean podcast funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society. Invigorated by the quest to document Black Britain, Pitts presents a space that becomes pertinent at a global and diasporic level, what academic Michael Eric Dyson describes as being ‘rooted in, but not restricted by Blackness’. Find your true home, build your life around it and don’t settle for anything less than the life you feel you were meant to live.