WINNER OF THE POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE

“In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in these pages mix a technically assured, sonically resonant, surface with a profoundly evocative, scrupulously integrated core. This book is a seismic event; its vibrations will be felt for a long time to come.”—Kayo Chingonyi, author of A Blood Condition

“I’ve been waiting for this book for years and Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s Quiet does not disappoint. There is so much to celebrate, so much to live for. Adukwei Bulley’s poems find new ways to look outwards by looking inwards in a range of lyric modes and volumes. They are quietly articulated prayers of the searching, missing and surviving as well as poems full of loud joyful living. These highly complex and accomplished poems keep moving themselves (and us, the readers), towards a feeling of aliveness in that rare way that feels earned and fought for.”—Raymond Antrobus, author of The Perseverance, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize

“Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; perfectly embody the political through the personal; and are freedom-loving shapeshifters constantly changing form and animating ideas and language to surprising effect. This is her debut collection, but she arrives fully formed.”—Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other