by Eric Doumerc | 8, Mar 2023
Mervyn Morris. Miss Lou – Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture.(Kingston and Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2014), 104 p., 2014.ISBN : 978-976-637-886-0 Louise Bennett (1919-2006) was born in 1919 in Kingston, Jamaica and died in 2006. She was a folklorist, a singer,...
by Eric Doumerc | 4, Mar 2023
Kokumo. Just Pieces of a Man .APS Books, 2022. Originally from Jamaica, Gerald Dixon, aka Kokumo, is a dub poet who has lived in Birmingham for many years and is well-known as an activist, workshop facilitator, poet, and storyteller. In 2006 Kokumo released a CD...
by Eric Doumerc | 13, Jun 2022
Blackman, Peter. Footprints – Poems by Peter Blackman. Middlesbrough : Smokestack Books, 2013. 106 pages. ISBN : 978 – 0 -9571722-8-9 Peter Blackman (1909-1993) was born in Barbados in 1909 and, after receiving a traditional colonial education at Harrison...
by Eric Doumerc | 9, Jun 2022
McFarlane, Roy. The Healing Next Time. Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2018. 79 pages. ISBN: 9781911027454 Roy McFarlane is a British poet of Jamaican parentage who was born in Birmingham and has lived most of his life in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands. In 2009 he was...
by Eric Doumerc | 9, Jun 2022
Unwritten – Caribbean Poems After the First World War. Edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf. Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2018. ISBN: 9781911027294. 122 pages. Unwrittten – Caribbean Poems After the First World War is a collection of poems which were inspired by...
