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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and one of The Guardian's Best Poetry Books of 2024.
Winner of the Sky Arts Award for Poetry.

"[The Wickedest is] alive in the way poetry must be." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Atmospheric and intoxicating, lyrical and inviting, The Wickedest is a heady night in the dance, and Caleb Femi is the life of the literary party." -Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie

An immersive epic taking place over one night at an underground London house party, conjured by a multi-hyphenate sensation.

Welcome to the Wickedest, the longest running house party in the South London shoob scene, always held at an undisclosed inner-city spot. You better hope you have the address: this is for locals only.

Sweaty and cinematic, pulsing with rhythm and heat, every moment here-from one-on-one intimacies to the swell of the party's collective roar-is refracted in Caleb Femi's writing. Ingeniously blending conversations, text messages, sonnets, vignettes, monologues, photos, and lyrics, The Wickedest is a modern epic, told as a minute-by-minute chronicle of an unforgettable night out.

Femi, a multi-hyphenate sensation and the author of Poor, which was called "a landmark debut for British poetry" by The Guardian, is a generational storyteller and scene setter. But The Wickedest does more than tell the story of one party; Femi uses the experience of nightlife to document the broader contexts surrounding the shoobs-the marginalization of low-income communities of color, the red tape that bars those on the edges from already shrinking communal space. Still, the party goes on. The Wickedest is a respite and a reckoning, a community of desire, care, and resistance that carries on long past the night's end.

Book details

Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: The Wickedest
• Author: Femi, Caleb
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780374616618
• ISBN: 0374616612
• ID: 45867153
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 191 × 127 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. January 2025

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