Living by Troubled Waters by Roy McFarlane Wayne Holloway-Smith author of Cruel Modernity (Duke

author of Cruel Modernity (Duke University Press)

including the brilliant trombonist Don Drummond

this collection raises serious questions and seeks to capture the energy of Rojava

prose and drawings on the themes closest to his heart

Living by Troubled Waters by Roy McFarlane Wayne Holloway-Smith author of Cruel Modernity (DukeLiving by Troubled Waters is the third poetry collection by Roy McFarlane an extraordinary, uncompromising book exploring slavery, colonialism, and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved. In his close examination of the horror of racialised violence, McFarlane examines how the strong currents of the past and present flow side by side. His poems ask us to think about the Black Mediterranean of today as