Belling the Leopard
$29.75
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2026
Summary
Joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize
In her wide-ranging debut collection, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley asks what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone. The poems criss-cross the Atlantic, beginning in the 1850s. The voices of Caribbean returnees to the west African coast mingle with those of west African recaptives, German missionaries, and kidnappers. They witness the changes in family life through the generations as villagers or townsfolk are uprooted or sta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780377742 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780377746 |
| Author: | Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Clementine Burnley |
| Publisher: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
Clementine Ewokolo Burnley’s poems are thoughtful, wry, yet cumulatively disarming in their vivid, sharply observed renditions of diasporic family life. From West Africa to Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Scottish Isles via Lombardy, London and Berlin, hers is the roving, analytical eye of the Afropean flâneur. A compelling storyteller, she shapeshifts between intimate and sociocultural histories, cities and continents, cousins and aunties, via a deft multilingualism that includes English, German and the languages and vernacular of her ancestral homeland, Cameroon.
– Karen McCarthy WoolfClementine Ewokolo Burnley
Clementine Ewokolo Burnley grew up in Victoria, Cameroon, and has lived between Scotland, Italy, and Germany for forty years.
She was joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize in 2024. Her pamphlet Radical Pairings (Ignitionpress, 2023) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award.
Burnley has received an Edwin Morgan Second Life Award (2020) and the RSL Sky award (2021) for creative nonfiction. She was also awarded a Hawthornden Foundation Residency in Bologna, Italy.
She has performed multi-modal pieces at venues including the HAU, Berlin (2018), the Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg (2018), the Literary Colloquium Berlin (2019), and Lateral North’s The World That Is Shaping Our COAST (2023) in Glasgow.
She is a non-fiction editor at Bending Genres and a Lector for the Royal Literary Fund Reading Round (2025) in Edinburgh.
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