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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 ...
Lyrical Genius
The quintessential folk poet of the Third World, Bob Marley influenced generations of musicians and writers throughout the Western Hemisphere. Renowne...
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...
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...
Poems Based on the Bareiss Family Collection of African Art
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...
Gomer, an Old Testament harlot, was the non-conformist wife of the prophet Hosea. In Dawes' contemporary reinterpretation of this Bible story, he pres...
New and Selected Poems
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, finalist. "Dawes's verse has an expressive power and lyric resonance that can ...
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 ...
New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013
Kofi Awoonor, one of Ghana s most accomplished poets, had for almost half a century committed himself to teaching, political engagement, and the liter...
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...
This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of ten new African poets....
Selected Poetry, Short Stories, Autobiographical Prose, and Critical Writing
This collection of work by the late Neville Dawes (1926-1984) makes available the fine poems that Dawes wrote, mostly between 1950-1970, some of which...
Poems
Characterized by a beautifully realized reciprocity between outer landscape and the characters inner worlds, this remarkable sequence of lyric poetry ...
A poem and portraits of children illustrate the shared beauty and heritage of people of African descent living throughout the world....
"In 'Wheels', Kwame Dawes brings the lyric poem face to face with the politics, natural disasters, social upheavals and ideological complexity of the ...
A Novel
"When his father dies in suspicious circumstances, Ferron Morgan's trauma is increased by the conflict within his family and his father's friends over...
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 ...
First published in 1945, this compilation features the work of Jamaican poet George Campbell. Perceptive and inspirational, these poems consider the e...
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...
After completing four collections of dialogue in poems, Kwame Dawes in Nebraska (via Ghana and Jamaica) and John Kinsella in Western Australia, have p...
Two Poem Cycles
Poems 93, 100 and 105 first appeared in the Boston Review....
An Introduction in Two Movements
"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...
A Chapbook Box Set (Tano)
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets....