STOP PRESS:  TWO BRAND NEW BOOKS FROM CARCANET PRESS !!

Chris' new collection about a white boy growing up in 1960s Ethiopia, a place he loves even as he learns his own privilege and foreignness.

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​​The first ever  anthology of  Ethiopian Amharic poetry in English!! Edited & translated by Chris Beckett & Alemu Tebeje. ​

Read the great review in MPT on the Reviews page!   

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Thank you for visiting my website.   I was born in London but grew up mostly in Ethiopia, where my father worked at the British Embassy in Addis Ababa. My second book, Ethiopia Boy, was published by Carcanet/Oxford Poets in 2013. I won the Poetry London competition in 2001, and Sketches from the Poem Road, a collaboration with my partner, the Japanese artist and sculptor Isao Miura, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2015.  I translate Ethiopian poetry and started Tamrat Books with Alemu Tebeje in 2017, to publish Ethiopian poets in English and Amharic. With Gale Burns, I host The Shuffle in Covent Garden, and am also a trustee of the Anglo-Ethiopian Society and the Poetry Society.
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                                                     lemon you are so sweet! 
                                                                                     (from Ethiopia Boy)

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