Abebe, the Cook’s Son by Chris Beckett

Chris Beckett (Abebe, the Cook’s Son) is a Ted Hughes Award-shortlisted poet and translator who grew up in Addis Ababa in the last years of Haile Selassie’s reign. He has published two collections, Ethiopia Boy and Tenderfoot, plus the first ever anthology of Ethiopian Amharic poetry in English, edited/translated with Alemu Tebeje, Songs We Learn from Trees. This autumn he is leading a workshop on Childhood and Praise Poetry for the Poetry School.

Chris's work appears in Issue 9 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.