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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571347759 | ISBN 10: 0571347754
‘Exquisite’ (New Yorker), ‘breathtaking’ (Los Angeles Times), ‘baroque and moon-lit’ (Boston Globe) House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780373607 | ISBN 10: 1780373600
This stunning collection gathers together previously unknown poems found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014. Neruda is renowned for poetry that casts away despair and celebrates living, fired by his belie ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781723340 | ISBN 10: 1781723346
The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry from Latin America is an anthology of Spanish language contemporary poetry from the Americas. Produced bilingually, with Spanish and English versions on facing pages, it is a welcome addition to the canon of translation ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784101688 | ISBN 10: 1784101680
‘Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [...] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final mismatch... a ‘Trinidad’ being created that did not take my Trinidad awa ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781845233082 | ISBN 10: 1845233085
Recent winner of the Frost medal from the Poetry Society of America, Kamau Brathwaite has discovered a rich new vein of inspiration late in life, writing poems of urgency, wisdom, pain and brave humour. No poet since Hardy and Yeats has written about ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847772671 | ISBN 10: 1847772676
Winner of the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlisted for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize In his new collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatises what happens when one system of knowledge, one met ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781852249106 | ISBN 10: 1852249102
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a ‘one-woman festival’. Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and experience, of love and conflict. They use personal stori ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845231712 | ISBN 10: 1845231716
"Without losing the joy of play or the play of the rhythms, Dub Wise celebrates the burdens and delights of love, friendships and the responsibility of being at home in the world. Geoffrey Philp’s new book is witty, playful, gracious and, yes, wise. ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781852248628 | ISBN 10: 1852248629
Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair. His poetry celebrates the ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199561599 | ISBN 10: 0199561591
The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alo ... more
View book details£12.95 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781857549416 | ISBN 10: 1857549414
The Caribbean is producing some of the most innovative and sophisticated poets in world literature today. This anthology turns the spotlight on eight New Caribbean poets. Between them, they represent the range of Caribbean identities and experi ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141025018 | ISBN 10: 0141025018
Pioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson revolutionized literary English with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican Creole, radical politics and dub rhythms. This major selection covers over three decades and includes classic early poems like I ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845230043 | ISBN 10: 1845230043
Slave Song is unquestionably one of the most important collections of Caribbean / Black British poetry to have been published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in 1984 it won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and established Dabydeen as ... more
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