Upper VoltaLike an anthropologist doing fieldwork, in Upper Volta Yanko Gonzlez collects language from street corners, grocery store aisles, cocktail hours, and historical sources, laying data bare with a poets meticulous hand. In his findings, Gonzlez gives voice to the voiceless, and exposes the underbelly of our own biasesthe ways in which they manifest in everyday language and collective consciousness. Originally published in Chile in 2007, Upper Volta

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with its incisive Foreword

working at one of the UK's oldest literary magazines

His many prizes include an Eric Gregory Award

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and uncertainty in later experience

and even fun: a sex education lesson that backfired

Andy Croft has written and edited many books

The Telegraph and the BBC website

Jon McGregor – author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

conveys with razor-sharp accuracy the sights

arguing that dogs don’t try to neigh