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Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, [1] and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine.
He was subsequently a lecturer in English at the University of Ghana (1960–70). [4] In 1962, he and his Ghanaian wife Sophia, an artist and social worker, had a son Kwame. [5] In 1971, Dawes returned with his family to Jamaica, where he became the executive director of the Institute of Jamaica in Kingston. [4]
Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books. [1] [2] [3] Poet Kwame Dawes has said, "Peepal Tree Press's position as the leading publisher of Caribbean literature, and especially of Caribbean poetry, is unassailable."
Poet and editor Kwame Dawes directed the African Poetry Book Fund and produced a series of chapbooks. [11] [12] Joseph A. Ushie at the University of Uyo English Department, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, said that "Modern written African poetry has a double heritage — pre-colonial and Western. As in most post-colonial situations, the tilt ...
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Poetry in Africa details more on the history and context of contemporary poetry on the continent. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The book was longlisted for the Laurel Prize for Poetry 2024, judged by the poets Mona Arshi, Caroline Bird and Kwame Dawes. [39] Baby Schema was also a Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024, as was chosen as a Times Best Poetry Collection of 2024 for its "pin-sharp poetry of artificial things — teddy bears, sponges, dolls — that ...
Michael Barnholden, On the Ropes (Coach House Books) ISBN 978-1-55245-002-4; Dionne Brand, Land to Light On; Clint Burnham, Be Labour Reading ISBN 978-1-55022-344-6; Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane.