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Kwame Dawes
In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life.
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Tares Oburumu
Tares Oburumu's collection of poems is a brief history of Syma, the neglected oil-producing region of Nigeria he came from, mixing music, religion, and political critique to evoke pasts and…
This ten-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of nine new African poets
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Abu Bakr Sadiq
The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subject matters, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill the tradition of witnessing, but they…
Poems of Jamaica, of Canada, of Africa; poems of rejoicing, faith, love and humour from the winner of the 1994 Forward Trust Poetry Prize.
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The debut novel from Jamaica’s award-winning poet.
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic…
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Deals with family secrets, focusing primarily on the triangular relationship between the poet, his father and younger brother, and also contains a moving acknowledgement of the rocklike unconditionality of a…
The author of City of Bones presents his latest book.
Characterized by a beautifully realized reciprocity between outer landscape and the characters inner worlds, this remarkable sequence of lyric poetry explores the blossoming of an innately complicated relationship between a…
Using the power of language to explore and discover patterns of meaning, this collection brings the lyric poem face to face with the external worldwith its politics, social upheavals, and…
In this compilation, more than 50 contemporary Jamaican poets reflect in outspoken, meditative, humorous, and outrageous ways upon the historical and existential moment of Jamaican independence. Ranging from the lyric…
Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventiveness. It brings together an exacting a portrayal of the social and cultural…
Continuing their poetic dialogue, begun in 2016 with the criticall acclaimed Speak From Here to There, poets Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella explore commonalities and difference, the results reminding us…
In these ‘shrines of remembrance’ for the millions of the victims of transatlantic slavery, Kwame Dawes constructs a sequence which laments, rages, mourns, but also celebrates survival. Focusing on individual…
Shook Foil captures the rhythms and fluidity of reggae. This is rootsy poetry which combines sex, politics, music and spirituality in an accessible way which will appeal to a wide…
The first book ever to look in-depth at reggae as an artistic form, Natural Mysticism shows how reggae combines politics, sex, spirituality and art, and offers in depth analyzes of…
An incisive portrayal of contemporary Jamaican society that touches corners few other writers have reached. Murder, madness, love, child abuse, church-going all find their place. It convincingly creates a host…
Winner of the prize for the best first collection in the Forward Poetry Prize of 1994, Progeny of Air explores a childhood and youth spent in 1970’s Jamaica. The collection…
The interviews in this book reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae, calypso, folk music…
The death of a Jamaican man’s father raises questions about the father’s political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica.
The miracle of empathy, Kwame Dawes once said in an interview, is the ultimate aim of my writing.
As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a revisioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City…
Award-winning Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest.
The poets include: Paul Allen, Jan Bailey, Cathy Smith Bowers, Jessica Bundschuh, Stephen Corey, Robert Cumming, Debra Daniel, Carol Ann Davis, Curtis Derrick, Linda Ferguson, Starkey Flythe, Angela Kelly, John…
Kwame Dawes has spent ten years studying the meanings of Bob Marley’s lyrics when matched against the social and political climate of the time. In this study the author reveals…
unHistory is an essential record of our times by two world-leading poets, it is much more than that. It is an exploration of history’s undertones, its personal, familial and institutional…
A compilation of selected crafts talks by faculty at the Pacific University MFA program, this book is an exciting introduction to some of the most alert and engaged minds in…
This hauntingly beautiful collection of poems is a disarming account of a man consumed by thoughts of home and loss.
Jeremy Poynting
Jeremy Poynting’s illuminating and entertaining introduction and notes offers a user friendly guide to Kwame Dawes’s Jamaican poetic masterpiece.
This anthology charts the engagement of Caribbean poets with the whole aesthetic of reggae. It brings together the poetry of the 1970s by writers such as Brathwaite, Scott, Morris and…
Born in Ghana, raised and educated in Jamaica, the author explores what this migrancy has meant for his writing. With great insight and intimacy, he writes movingly of place, race…
In Wisteria, Kwame Dawes finds poignant meaning in the landscape and history of Sumter, a small town in central South Carolina. Here the voices of women who lived through most…
Corinna McCleod,Corinna McLeod
The first literary critical monograph on one of the most significant and influential figures in contemporary Caribbean writing, this unique study examines the connections between Kwame Dawes’ diverse publications and…
Kwame Dawes,John Kinsella
The third in a quartet of poem-dialogues between Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, begun in 2015 with the critically acclaimed ‘Speak From Here to There’ (2016), and followed by ‘A…
Charlene Spearen
Deeply felt verses espousing resilience, belonging, and artistry in the face of the challenges of the everyday
The South Carolina Poetry Book Prize is a celebration of accomplished and emerging poets linked together by their shared associations with the Palmetto State. Published on the seventh anniversary of…
The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to inspire a desire to respond. The best artists are a…
This nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of eight African poets.
This limited-edition nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of new African poets.
Kwame Dawes,Joshua Cogan
Frank and earnest, this moving collection of poetry offers a glimpse into the support centers and hospice outside of Montego Bay and the many lives that have been lost to…
Millicent Graham
Sparkling with sharp wit and off-kilter humor, this emotional collection shows a distinctly contemporary and urban Jamaica through the eyes of a surrealist whose sharp imagery and precise language expose…
Marion Bethel
Rooted in the landscape of the Bahamas and marked by a mastery of syntax, these poems are finely crafted works of art that reveal a distinctive use of language that…
