Poem of the week: Incendiary Art: Ferguson, 2014 by Patricia Smith

The US poet’s reaction to the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown is a searing elegy for black lives destroyed

Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith is published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK, and TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press in the US. The Bloodaxe website also features some powerful recordings of Smith reading from her work.