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'A triumph ... A wholly original and creative mind' NEW YORK TIMES‘A multi-genre phenomena, it’s a triumph of a creative mind’ GLAMOUR‘Frightens and astonishes ... Combines Maya Angelou’s passion and Sylvia Plath’s devastating self-inquisition' GUARDIAN‘Emezi is a dream of a writer’ BOLU BABALOLAA fiercely contemporary collection which renegotiates the contract between poet and reader in the light of this moment in human history, from the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek OjiContent Warning: Everything concerns itself with the fugitive nature of being in the world especially, but not exclusively, within blackness. The poems reshape possibilities for poetry by paying close attention to the author's rhythm of thought, making a series of durable anthems from the noise of the contemporary moment.In this bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi – award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji and Dear Senthuran – imagines a new depth of belonging. Crafted of both divine and earthly materials, these poems travel from home to homesickness, tracing desire to surrender and abuse to survival, while mapping out a chosen family that includes the son of god, mary auntie, and magdalene with the chestnut eyes. Written from a spiritfirst perspective and celebrating the essence of self that is impossible to drown, kill, or reduce, Content Warning: Everything distills the radiant power and epic grief of a mischievous and wanting young deity, embodied.

Emezi has combined Maya Angelou’s passion and Sylvia Plath’s devastating self-inquisition to create an edgy music that frightens and astonishes, A multi-genre pheonomena, it’s a triumph of a creative mind, Emezi’s work is deeply magical, it is stunningly selective, making you feel so much with so little, A triumph of selfhood that painstakingly journeys between belief and becoming. Holding tenderness and rage in one breath, the Nigerian-born nonbinary author excavates trauma, divorce and loss without restraint ... Illuminates a complicated past, expels antiquated what-ifs and allows readers to share in the possibilities underscored by a wholly original and creative mind, A bold debut collection delving into Blackness, trauma, sexuality and the divine from the author of The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, a finalistfor the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Award; Pet, a finalistfor the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and a Walter Honor Book; Freshwater, nameda New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/ Hemingway Award, the New York Public LibraryYoung Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize;Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir; and a second young adult novel, Bitter. Their debut romance novel, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, was published in May 2022. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.