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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Carolyn Forche , Jackie KayPublisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm ISBN: 9781780373928ISBN 10: 1780373929 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 16 November 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsConsisting of poems by almost 90 writers... it is not so much a book of poems about Martin Luther King as about the causes for which he lived and died.... This very strong collection is full of powerful individual poems.' - Andy Croft, Morning Star Author InformationCarolyn Forche is Director of the Lannan Center for Poetry and Poetics and holds the Lannan Chair in Poetry at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her collection The Country Between Us (1981) drew on her experiences in El Salvador during the civil war, and will be reissued by Bloodaxe in 2018. Her later collections from Bloodaxe are The Angel of History (1994), Blue Hour (2003), and In the Lateness of the World (2020). Her landmark anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (Norton, 1993), was followed by Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English: 1500-2001 (Norton, 2014), edited with Duncan Wu. Jackie Kay is Scotland's Makar, or National Poet of Scotland. Her many books include The Adoption Papers (1991) and Darling: New & Selected Poems (2007) from Bloodaxe. She has published a novel, three short story collections, a memoir and two poetry collections with Picador. She lives in Manchester. Jackie Kay is Professor of Creative Writing and Carolyn Forche a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |