Echo-Mirror

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The long-awaited collection by much-loved dub poet Klyde Broox, Echo-Mirror is a tour of his poetry over the decades. Filled with a rich voice and song, the poems within this collection are meant to be heard as much as read, but still resound on the page. Broox takes aim at the need to write in English, at inequality and at other injustices, with sharp images and strong rhythms, but also writes movingly of family and those lost along the way. The poems in the collection question the status quo, they celebrate Black voices and they are a call to action. These are poems that leap off the page into the reader’s heart.

AUTHOR

Klyde Broox

Klyde Broox is an award-winning Jamaican-born dubpoet, informal scholar, author and literary activist, with an international presence. Broox has been awarded the 1979 Nathan Brissett Poetry Prize in Jamaica, a 1992 James Michener Fellowship from the University of Miami, the 2005 Hamilton Arts Award for Literature and the 2011 Reverend John C. Holland Award for Arts Achievement. He has published two volumes of poetry: Poemstorm (Swansea, Wales, 1989) and the award-wining My Best Friend Is White (McGilligan Books, Toronto, 2005). He held a 2017 fellowship with McMaster University’s Centre for Community-Engaged Narrative Arts, and was a 2018 finalist for the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Klyde Broox currently lives in Hamilton.

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Details

Dimensions:

100 Pages
8.5in * 5.75in * 0.25in
185gr

Published:

February 11, 2025

Publisher:

Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd

ISBN:

9781989496978

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Caribbean & Latin American

Language:

eng

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