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Zong! is NourbeSe Philip's most recent book of poetry. Published by Weslyan University Press, and by The Mercury Press in Canada, this extended poetry cycle is based on a legal decision, at the end of the eighteenth century, related to the murder of Africans on board a slave ship. A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry
While still unpublished, an early version of one poem was published in Facture, four poems, along with an introduction, were published in Fascicle and two poems were published in boundary 2. A dramatized reading of this new poem cycle, was workshoped and presented at Toronto Harbourfront as part of "rock.paper.sistahz" in April 2006. This production was directed by Diane Roberts with actors Andrea Henry, Andy Marshall, Lili Francks and Xuan Fraser. Yvette Martin was the stage manager with Natalie Wood and Mark Prince as contributing artists. a
a dramatized readingofZong!
In 1781 the captain of the slave ship, Zong, murders, by
drowning, one hundred and fifty Africans so as to collect insurance monies.
Through fragments of voices, shreds of memory and shards of silence, Zong!
unravels the story that can only be told by not telling. April 13, 2006, 8pm
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