ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Safe Metamorphosis' is the debut poetry collection from alternative hip-hop spoken word artist and storyteller Otis Mensah, Sheffield's first Poet Laureate. Mensah's work challenges dominant modes of masculinity and disrupts the elitism of poetry through its accessible, honest, raw and intimate language and rhythms. Free from the constraints of convention, Mensah writes in his own, unique voice, layered with hip-hop rhythms and surreal imagery, unified by its fearless commitment to emotional honesty and its openness about the power and cost of creativity.