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unHistory: a poem cycle by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella by Kwame Dawes 9781845235321
Booksplease Price: £26.74After completing four collections of dialogue in poems, Kwame Dawes in Nebraska (via Ghana and Jamaica) and John Kinsella in Western Australia, have produced a monumental fifth volume in four... -
Prophets by Kwame Dawes 9781845234041
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventiveness that portrays the social and cultural resonances of Jamaican society along with the tension... -
WISTERIA by Kwame Dawes 9781597090599
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In Wisteria, Kwame Dawes finds poignant meaning in the landscape and history of Sumter, a small town in central South Carolina. Here the voices of women who lived through most of the twentieth... -
Mortality Kwame Dawes 9781845235932
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The sixth collection of this profound dialogue between two major poets from opposite sides of the world takes on the subject most of us try to avoid. Provoked by such things as near fatal accidents,... -
Wheels by Kwame Dawes 9781845231422
Booksplease Price: £13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231422Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Midland: Poems by Kwame Dawes 9780821413562
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice... -
Nebraska: Poems by Kwame Dawes 9781496221230
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.86Kwame 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 he relocated to the United States and eventually... -
Impossible Flying by Kwame Dawes 9781845230395
Booksplease Price: £12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845230395Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
She's Gone by Kwame Dawes 9781933354187
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354187Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint -
City of Bones: A Testament by Kwame Dawes
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.86As 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 lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament... -
Resisting the Anomie Kwame Dawes 9780864921475
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01Resisting the Anomie is the second book of poetry by Kwame Dawes, whose collection Progeny of Air, won Britain's prestigious Forward Trust Poetry Prize for Best First Book in the fall of 1994. In... -
Midland: Poems by Kwame Dawes 9780821413555
Booksplease Price: £29.88The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice... -
Sturge Town: Poems by Kwame Dawes 9781845235741
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Sturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the earliest days of Kwame Dawes' work as a poet, from the roots of childhood in Ghana to the reflections of a man turned sixty who is... -
Sturge Town: Poems Kwame Dawes 9781324076315
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.96The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the... -
Sturge Town: Poems by Kwame Dawes 9781324123453
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.65The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the... -
Speak from Here to There Kwame Dawes 9781845233198
Booksplease Price: £12.89During 2015 and 2016, two poets from opposite sides of the world, Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, exchanged poems in two cycles, Echoes and Refrains and Illuminations, that were in constant dialogue... -
A New Beginning: A Poem Cycle by Kwame Dawes 9781845234249
Booksplease Price: £17.64When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016 it was, remarkably, doing something quite new. There are of course the conversations implied in the poems of Coleridge and Wordsworth, but no two... -
Hope's Hospice: and Other Poems by Kwame Dawes 9781845230784
Booksplease Price: £13.98While on assignment for the Virginia Quarterly Review to report on the impact of HIV/AIDS on Jamaica, Kwame Dawes could not prevent himself from writing poems in response to the stories he heard. In... -
Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius by Kwame Dawes 9780825673528
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825673528Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes 9781636142555
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636142555Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows by Kwame Dawes 9781891885396
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.80The poets include: Paul Allen, Jan Bailey, Cathy Smith Bowers, Jessica Bundschuh, Stephen Corey, Robert Cumming, Debra Daniel, Carol Ann Davis, Curtis Derrick, Linda Ferguson, Starkey Flythe, Angela... -
Shook Foil: a collection of reggae poetry Kwame Dawes 9781900715140
Booksplease Price: £11.75When the guitars tickle a bedrock of drum and bass, when the girl a shock out and a steady hand curve round her sweat-smooth waist, when the smell of Charlie mingles with the chemicals of her hair... -
Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry by Kwame Dawes 9781845231293
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Red is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets. "Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about Red is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with... -
Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems by Kwame Dawes 9781556594236
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556594236Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint -
Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry by Kwame Dawes 9780864921994
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864921994Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint -
Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden by Kwame Dawes 9780810134898
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.89Borrowing from Romare Bearden's aesthetic palette and inspired by his Odysseus series, Bearden's Odyssey gathers, for the first time, poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets... -
Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets by Kwame Dawes 9780813919461
Booksplease Price: £25.14The interviews in this book reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae, calypso, folk music and... -
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes 9781636140599
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £38.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636140599Author Kwame DawesFormat HardbackPage Count 466Imprint -
Kumi: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set by Kwame Dawes 9781636141886
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £24.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141886Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint -
When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life by Kwame Dawes 9780988482746
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £10.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988482746Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint -
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba): Hardcover Anthology Edition by Kwame Dawes
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £37.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617759727Author Kwame DawesFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint -
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes 9781636142418
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £24.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636142418Author Kwame DawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint -
Ota Benga Under My Mother's Roof by Carrie Allen McCray 9781611170856
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof, Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) uses poignant and personal verse to trace the ill-fated life of the Congolese pygmy who was famously exhibited in the Bronx Zoo in... -
The Children of Sisyphus by Orlando Patterson 9781845230944
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The Children of Sisyphus is the story of Dinah, a prostitute who lives and fails to find love on the Dungle, the rubbish heap where the very poorest squat. Trapped by patriarchy and male passivity,... -
Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction by Carol Taylor 9780452282247
Booksplease Price: £17.18This rich and diverse collection of Black erotica brings together eighteen original short stories by America's premier Black authors-Sapphire, Natasha Tarpley, Leone Ross, Pamela Sneed, and many more... -
The January Children by Safia Elhillo 9780803295988
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets 2018 Arab American Book Award Winner, Poetry "A taut debut collection of heartfelt poems."-Publishers WeeklyIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, "The... -
Madman at Kilifi by Clifton Gachagua 9780803249622
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.70Clifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of cultures in flux, cybercommunication and the language... -
ALT 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics Ernest N Emenyonu 9781847013910
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Examines the state of African poetry today, the continuing influence of Africa's pioneer poets, today's new generation of poets, and their work in written poetry and in the spoken word, continuing... -
Voices Under The Window by John Hearne 9781845230319
Booksplease Price: £12.12Mark Lattimer is chopped by a stranger in the heat of a riot. He has been attacked because he looks white and middle class, though he is a politically committed lawyer working for the poor and the... -
Irki by Kadija Sesay 9781845232085
Booksplease Price: £11.74The poems in Irki rise out of Kadija Sesay's experiences - amusing, loving, confusing, sad - of growing up in foster care in the UK after leaving her home country of Sierra Leone.'Irki' means...