Author: Kwame Dawes

Leading Caribbean poet Kwame Dawes presents a collection of work by over 30 poets in response to the Haitian earthquake of 2010. Here are poems abo...

City of Bones is a poets testament, his vision of times past and future. Composed in a language that is highly intelligent, tightly wrought, and bu...

The third in a quartet of poem-dialogues between Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, begun in 2015 with the critically acclaimed 'Speak From Here to The...

This collection of work by the late Neville Dawes (1926-1984) gives unrivalled access to his thoughts on a rural Jamaican childhood, his exposure t...

As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a revisioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The...

Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 ...

Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventiveness that portrays the social and cultural reson...

When his father dies in suspicious circumstances, Ferron Morgan's trauma is increased by the conflict within his family and his father's friends ov...

Using the power of language to explore and discover patterns of meaning, this stunning and ambitious collection brings the lyric poem face to face ...

During 2015 and 2016, two poets from opposite sides of the world, Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, exchanged poems in two cycles, Echoes and Refrains...

When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016 it was, remarkably, doing something quite new. There are of course the conversations implied in...