This collection reasserts the significant work of the writer and intellectual Neville Dawes, whose poetry has been unavailable since the late 1950s. A lifelong Marxist and a lover of English literature, Dawes's concern for the rural Jamaican working class is evident in the poems that celebrate his youth in the village of Sturge Town, Jamaica. Written between 1950 and 1970, these inspiring poems show that the strength provided by heritage can overcome the difficulties posed by…
Author: Neville Dawes; Kwame Dawes (ed.) · Original publisher: Peepal Tree Press (Leeds, UK, 2012) (later/standard edition)
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