My name is Eric Doumerc and I teach English at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, in Toulouse, south-western France.
My research interests are mainly dub and performance poetry, and Caribbean musical forms.Over the years I’ve written mainly about reggae (books about Culture, I-Roy, Burning Spear and a history of reggae in England), and not so much about Caribbean poetry. I did publish many years ago two anthologies of Black British poetry, one with the late Trinidadian poet and activist Roi Kwabena (Five Birmigham Poets) and the other for Smokestack Books, a publishing house run by the poet Andy Croft (Celebrate Wha’). I think that one may be out of print now.  My latest book is entitled The Power of the Word (APS, 2025) and is about Jamaican deejaying  in the 1970s. This website also contains a few album and book reviews.