Mental Fight

<p><b>An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. </b></p><p>There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far – art in all its forms, advances made in the fields of technology and medicine and, for many of us, the miracle of freedom. But there is also much to regret – racism, intolerance, the destruction of our environment, the reality and the legacy of slavery.</p><p>In this long, sustained consideration of the state we find ourselves in, Ben Okri invokes the past to explain the present, and sings out a message of hope. The future is still ours to make. This epic poem, an anthem for the twenty-first century, first appeared in <i>The Times</i> in January 1999. Its message could hardly be more relevant to our present condition.</p><p>Discover this revised edition of an inspiring and extraordinarily tender work.</p><h2>'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven' <b>Ali Smith</b></h2>