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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.
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."
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Neville Augustus Dawes was born in Warri, Nigeria, to Jamaican parents Augustus Dawes (a Baptist missionary and teacher) and his wife Laura, [1] and was raised in rural Jamaica, [2] where the family returned when he was three years old. [3]
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 .
Bengali literature; By category Bengali language: Bengali language authors; Chronological list – Alphabetic List: Bengali writers; Writers – Novelists – Poets: Forms; Novel – Poetry – Science Fiction: Institutions and awards; Literary Institutions Literary Prizes: Related Portals Literature Portal. India Portal. Bangladesh Portal
Badilisha Poetry X-Change 2008 Badilisha Poetry X-Change 2009. Badilisha Poetry X-Change is a platform dedicated to showcasing poetry from Africa and the African Diaspora.The project came out of recognising the lack of documentation of African poets, on the African continent and in the rest of the world.
The Bengali Language Movement was a political effort in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) that advocated the adoption of Bengali as an official language. The movement faced violent opposition by the government before finally succeeding. Numerous songs, poems, novels and plays were written to commemorate the movement, as well as films and memoirs.