Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry

by Kwame Dawes (Editor), Kwame Dawes

Overview

This is an anthology to delight both lovers of reggae and lovers of poetry. The poems fuse reggae’s emotional immediacy, prophetic vision, fire and brimstone protest and sensuous eroticism with all the traditional resources of poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781900715133
Publisher:	Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kwame Dawes is truly a poet with an international voice and a burgeoning international reputation. Dawes was born in Ghana of Jamaican parents and grew up in Jamaica. He spent time as a child in England, and later studied and taught at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. He is the founder and lead singer of Ujaama, a reggae band that reunited in 2000 to open the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival in Fredericton. Now a professor of post-colonial literature at the University of South Carolina, Dawes is a frequent presence on the Canadian cultural scene as a consultant on race relations and the arts, and as a commentator on CBC Radio. Dawes's first collection of poetry, Progeny of Air, won England's Forward Poetry Prize in 1994. Since then, he has published five collections, including the widely praised Resisting the Anomie. Kwame Dawes is also the editor of Talk Yuh Talk, a collection of interviews with Caribbean poets, and Wheel and Come Again, the landmark anthology of reggae poetry.

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From the Publisher

"A spiralling freefall through the cross-faded currents of the Caribbean poetic impulse, from high-hat writers to the melting bottom of a one-drop groove." — Colin Channer