Description
In the polyglot world of Eaten by White Ants, poet Peter Midgley explores the ways in which language can hide, obscure, and falsify pasts and heritages. He engages with what it means to learn, unlearn, and relearn language, and grapples with his own implication in the erasures caused by what has been eaten, literally and metaphorically, by greedy white ants. Midgley’s poems reflect a deep concern with human rights and equity and meditate on the multiple legacies of a complex, colonial past. Form-defying yet accessible, Eaten by White Ants will find a home on the shelves of North American, European, and African poetry readers, as well as readers drawn to a mix of experimental poetry and more conventional lyric.