rrib…tones. Just as ambitious as Femi’s stylistic approach are the topics he takes on through his poems — classism, racism, childhood abuse, knife crime in the U.K. (London specifically), poverty, survivor’s guilt, police brutality, gentrification and more are explored through Femi’s writing, as is a direct response to the horrible fire at Grenfell (something which is also explored in other contemporary British poetry collections such as Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise and Surge by Jay Bernard). When I first read POOR, some of these ideas were new to me (or, at least, the way that they were bei…
