For the Unnamed by Fred D'Aguiar Leah Atherton Rizwan unpacks and offers critical

Rizwan unpacks and offers critical comment on the vexed issues of class

expressing solidarity with a nation’s wound

illustrated by Hannah Mumby

the Spectator and Punch

The poems are selected from Allie Esiri's bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year

For the Unnamed by Fred D'Aguiar Leah Atherton Rizwan unpacks and offers criticalFor the Unnamed (Black Jockey Who Rode the Winning Steed in the Race Between Pico's Sarco and Sepulveda's Black Swan in Los Angeles, in 1852.)Fred D'Aguiar's new book recovers and re imagines the story of a black jockey who raced and won the most publicised race of his era and yet was not named in any of the many press notices about the event. Except to say that he was black and he was a freeman (that is, he had purchased his freedom). Carcanet