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โ[A] diaspora of black culture and strong emotions, bordering the fine line between love and madness between two troubled people.โ โBooklist A p...
The quintessential folk poet of the Third World, Bob Marley influenced generations of musicians and writers. He was a performer who held true to his r...
Poems
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established hims...
New and Selected Poems
"[Dawes] is highly original and intelligent, possessing poetic sensibility that is rooted and sound, unshakeable and unstopped, both in its vibrancy a...
Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 he ...
The death of a Jamaican manโs father raises questions about the fatherโs political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica. โFew other ...
In this stunning volume, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes explores the mythic, ancestral, and spiritual journeys that make up a life. The site of the ruined...
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When the guitars tickle a bedrock of drum and bass, when the girl a shock out and a steady hand curve round her sweat-smooth waist, when the smell of ...
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 J...
Poems Based on the Bareiss Family Collection of African Art
Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic in Caribbean Writing
Dawes takes an in-depth look at reggae as an artistic form, exploring how reggae is both uniquely Jamaican and a music of world wide appeal. His writi...
Since Kwame Dawes published his Forward Poetry prize-winning Progeny of Air in 1994, six further collections have followed which have had a huge impac...
A Personal Narrative
After ten years of living and working in South Carolina, of trying to manage a writing career that spans the USA, the UK and Jamaica, the question of ...
Gomer, an Old Testament harlot, was the non-conformist wife of the prophet Hosea. In Dawes' contemporary reinterpretation of this Bible story, he pres...
Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott anchor this groundbreaking, soulful poetry collection. Imagine a night of a hundred poets reading their work to an aud...
Accra joins Lagos, Nairobi, Marrakech, and Addis Ababa in representing the African continent in the Noir Series arena. โSuperb . . . Each story reaf...
Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets, Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry presents Kwame Dawes and Chris Abaniโs unprecedente...
Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventiveness that portrays the social and cultural resonanc...
Poems on Neville Dawes
This collection reasserts the significant work of the writer and intellectual Neville Dawes, whose poetry has been unavailable since the late 1950s. A...
This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of ten new African poets....
A new play for Britain's leading black theatre company, with a premiere at London's Lyric Theatre in July 2001 Hot, humid, downtown Kingston, Jamaica....
"In 'Wheels', Kwame Dawes brings the lyric poem face to face with the politics, natural disasters, social upheavals and ideological complexity of the ...
A poem and portraits of children illustrate the shared beauty and heritage of people of African descent living throughout the world....
Characterized by a beautifully realized reciprocity between outer landscape and the characters inner worlds, this remarkable sequence of lyric poetry ...
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets....
A Chapbook Box Set
Poor sower of seeds with a gift for dreaming, Jacko Jacobus knows that his destiny is to found a people to shake the nations. But when he has to flee ...
After completing four collections of dialogue in poems, Kwame Dawes in Nebraska (via Ghana and Jamaica) and John Kinsella in Western Australia, have p...
Design and Production Archive
A design and production archive for Punta del Burro by Kwame Dawes, with illustrations by Jon Gregg, in a book designed b Claire Van Vliet. The collec...
"Edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, the yearly poetry chapbook set is a delightful combination of emerging African poets. This year's collection i...
Two Poem Cycles
Poems 93, 100 and 105 first appeared in the Boston Review....
Towards a New *reggae Aesthetic in Carribean Writing
"When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016, it was seen as doing something quite new: two poets recognised as being at the top of their game...
Essays on Writing and the Writing Life
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 ale...
A Chapbook Box Set (Tano)