Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller is a powerful collection of essays that challenges readers to confront the silence around prejudice and discrimination. Miller's writing is both insightful and poetic, as he explores difficult topics such as white privilege and the legacy of colonialism. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand the impact of systemic racism and the importance of speaking out against it.

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• Orwell Prize Nominee for Political Writing for Shortlist (2022)
• OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Nonfiction (2022)
• The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2021)
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WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEIn this astonishing collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the crimes that haunt them, and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood.Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Liam Neeson, Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, white women's tears, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice.With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why - our actions, defence mechanisms, imaginations and interactions - and those of the world around us.

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