The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Antrobus, Raymond

Community & Culture

Hogarth

To Sweeten Bitter

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Out-Spoken Press

The debut children's book from Ted Hughes award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus that tracks a father-and-son journey into the discovery and management of deafness.\nBoy Bear cannot hear Dad Bear coming to wake him up in the morning but he can feel the floor vibrate with his heavy footsteps. He can only grasp little bits of what his teacher says to him at school. He cannot catch what his friends are laughing at. And, all the time, Boy Bear keeps hearing the question, “Can Bears ski?” What does it mean? With the support of Dad Bear, Boy Bear visits an audiologist and, eventually, he gets hearing aids. Suddenly, he understands the question everyone has been asking him: "CAN YOU HEAR ME?"\nRaymond draws on his own experience to show how isolating it can be for a deaf child in a hearing world. But through his lyrical and moving words, matched with Polly's stunning imagery, he also shows how many ways there are to communicate love. With a solid network, Boy Bear will find his place in the world.

Can Bears Ski?

Children's Books

Animals

Walker Books

The debut children's book from Ted Hughes award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus that tracks a father-and-son journey into the discovery and management of deafness.\nThis new paperback edition includes an illustrated BSL alphabet.\nBoy Bear cannot hear Dad Bear coming to wake him up in the morning but he can feel the floor vibrate with his heavy footsteps. He can only grasp little bits of what his teacher says to him at school. He cannot catch what his friends are laughing at. And, all the time, Boy Bear keeps hearing the question, “Can Bears ski?” What does it mean? With the support of Dad Bear, Boy Bear visits an audiologist and, eventually, he gets hearing aids. Suddenly, he understands the question everyone has been asking him: "CAN YOU HEAR ME?"\nRaymond Antrobus, the award-winning poet of The Perseverance, draws on his own experience to show how isolating it can be for a deaf child in a hearing world. But through his lyrical and moving words, matched with Polly's stunning imagery, he also shows how many ways there are to communicate love. With a solid network, Boy Bear will find his place in the world.

Can Bears Ski?: 1

Is Little Bear ignoring his friends when they say hi, or is something else going on? A discovery opens new doors in a tale that will delight kids with deafness and all children learning to navigate their world. Little Bear feels the world around him. He feels his bed rumble when Dad Bear wakes him up in the morning. He feels the floor shake when his teacher stomps to get his attention. But something else is missing, like when his friends tell jokes that he isn't sure he understands, or when all around him Little Bear hears the question, "Can bears ski?" Then, one day, Dad Bear takes him to see an "aud-i-olo-gist," and Little Bear learns that he has been experiencing deafness and will start wearing hearing aids. Soon he figures out what that puzzling refrain is: "Can you hear me?" Little Bear's new world is LOUD and will take some getting used to, but with the love and support of Dad Bear, he will find his way. In this lyrical picture book, award-winning creators Raymond Antrobus and Polly Dunbar draw on their own experiences to tell Bear's story.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Candlewick

Terrible Horses: A Story of Sibling Conflict and Companionship (A Heartwarming Picture Book About Emotions and Family Bonds for Kids Ages 3-7)

* Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award 2018* Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize * An extraordinary debut from a young British-Jamaican poet, The Perseverance is a book of loss, language and praise. One of the most crucial new voices to emerge from Britain, Raymond Antrobus explores the d/Deaf experience, the death of his father and the failure to communicate. Ranging across history, time zones and continents, The Perseverance operates in the in betweens of dual heritages, of form and expression emerging to show us what it means to exist, and to flourish.

The Perseverance

Penned in the Margins

Featured on NPR's Morning Edition A Poetry Book of the Year at&nbsp;The Guardian,&nbsp;The Sunday Times, and Poetry School Winner of the Ted Hughes Award, Rathbones Folio Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award; shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize&nbsp; In the wake of his father's death, the speaker in Raymond Antrobus' The Perseverance travels to Barcelona. In Gaudi's Cathedral, he meditates on the idea of silence and sound, wondering whether acoustics really can bring us closer to God. Receiving information through his hearing aid technology, he considers how deaf people are included in this idea. "Even though," he says, "I have not heard / the golden decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless / palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and I am able to answer." The Perseverance is a collection of poems examining a d/Deaf experience alongside meditations on loss, grief, education, and language, both spoken and signed. It is a book about communication and connection, about cultural inheritance, about identity in a hearing world that takes everything for granted, about the dangers we may find (both individually and as a society) if we fail to understand each other.

Tin House Books

Review\n"Exquisite. " 
― The New York Times Book Review\n"Deeply personal, emotionally striking, with memorable turns of phrase." 
― Chicago Review of Books\n"Bold and tender. . . . These voice and narrative-driven poems bear witness to the gaps in language, speaking, and understanding―moving seamlessly through new poetic and visual forms in the pursuit of bridging and speaking to these gaps." 
― The Arkansas International\n"Antrobus never sits inside darkness. It’s not so much that he is overly sentimental or naively optimistic. Rather, Antrobus is able to juxtapose the most troubling moments with vignettes of wonder and wisdom. . . . Antrobus burst onto the scene with two incredible collections this year. Do yourself a favor and get a copy of both The Perseverance and All The Names Given. This is a poet you’re going to want to follow." 
― The Poetry Question\n"Intriguing and moving." 
― The Times Literary Supplement (UK)\n"In All The Names Given, the essential tension is knowledge. Knowledge of self, knowledge of others. These poems make the sublime leap or union of witness to ‘with-ness,’ so their knowledge is not speculative but holds together, beautiful and fraught, the broken burden of honesty: love. Antrobus is a phenomenal poet." 
― Ishion Hutchinson, author of House of Lords and Commons\n"[Antrobus] reckons with his own ancestry, conflicting racial and cultural identities, and chronicles the damages of colonialism." 
― CITY Magazine\n"This collection is a brave, tender and generous piece of music, where family is a cord forever troubled by the process of being named. With a knife-like precision, All the Names Given manages to caption the speaker’s dance with the ghosts of his bloodline, offering us a haunting study on what we can find in the silences of history when history is recognized as more than a noun, when recognized as something alive and kinetic, something constantly in conversation with the present. I can’t wait to see how this timely book ripples through our world." 
― Camoghne Felix, author of Build Yourself a Boat\n"What a beautiful book Raymond Antrobus has written! I love it. So much pain, so much tenderness, so much music and invention and passion in All The Names Given. Truly, it is terrific. Antrobus has a special gift of making music from stories and giving his lyrics gravity and urgency that’s inimitable." 
― Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic\n"These poems are revelations. This collection is so obviously at the forefront of a new canon whose singular and evocative approach to lyricism and imagistic play demonstrates not only the necessity of our multilingual and multimodal realities, but ‘the volume of their power,’ too." 
― Meg Day, author of Last Psalm at Sea Level\n"A fluidly written understanding of self, history, and oppression from a fast-rising poet." 
― Library Journal, Starred Review\n"Deaf poet Raymond Antrobus's powerful collection winds readers between text and image, sound and silence, while tackling questions about identity, family and trauma. . . . bold and direct, these poems are stunning in their generosity: two hands open, offering abundance." 
― Shelf Awareness, Starred Review\n"Powerful. . . . Antrobus beautifully pays witness to the legacy of colonialism while providing another gripping meditation on language and communication." 
― Publishers Weekly\n"Raymond Antrobus [has a] depth of awareness, originality, and empathy―all turned inside out and refracted into prism-like hues of insight." 
― Foreword Reviews\nA Guardian Best Book of the Year 
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Costa Poetry Award 
“Exquisite.” ―The New York Times Book Review\n“Brave, tender and generous. . . . A haunting study of what we can find in the silences of history when history is recognized as more than a noun, when recognized as something alive and kinetic.” ―Camonghne Felix, author of Build Yourself a Boat 
On the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues h

All The Names Given: Poems

Structured as a two-part sequence poem, Signs, Music explores the before and after of becoming a father with tenderness and care--the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the "hypothetical" and the "real" of fatherhood, the ways our own parents shape the parents we become, and how fraught with emotion, curiosity, and recollection this irreversible transition to fatherhood makes one's inner landscape. At once searching and bright, deeply rooted and buoyant, Raymond Antrobus's Signs, Music is a moving record of the changes and challenges encompassing new parenthood and the inevitable cycles of life, death, birth, renewal and legacy--a testament to the joy, uncertainty, and incredible love that come with bringing new life into the world.

Signs, Music: Poems

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The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: A Memoir

To Sweeten Bitter

Can Bears Ski?

Can Bears Ski?: 1

Can Bears Ski?

Terrible Horses: A Story of Sibling Conflict and Companionship (A Heartwarming Picture Book About Emotions and Family Bonds for Kids Ages 3-7)

The Perseverance

The Perseverance

All The Names Given: Poems

Signs, Music: Poems