When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle
University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying
extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said:
'There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face
today...That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and
the problem of war.' As part of a fifty year anniversary and
celebration, this anthology gathers poets from both sides of the
Atlantic to address the challenges set out by Dr King. It's a shock
to think how little has changed, and that Martin Luther King could
well be speaking right here, right now. In the spirit of Dr King
and his work as a humanitarian and activist, this anthology brings
together poems that offer powerful testimonies to the urgent issues
Dr King defines and represents the polyphony of voices that speak
in resistance to our continuing problems of racism, poverty and
war. Featuring poems by Claudia Rankine, Grace Nichols, Yusef
Komunyakaa, Moniza Alvi, Rita Dove, Daljit Nagra, Imtiaz Dharker,
Fred D'Aguiar, Oliver de la Paz, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, John
Agard, Patricia Smith, Jericho Brown, Toi Derricotte, Vahni
Capildeo, Carl Phillips, Sarah Howe, Elizabeth Alexander, Ishion
Hutchinson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Marilyn Nelson, Mimi Khalvati,
Nikki Giovanni, Robert Pinsky, Bernardine Evaristo, Vidyan
Ravinthiran, Major Jackson, Tim Seibles, Choman Hardi, Benjamin
Zephaniah, Shazea Quraishi, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sandeep Parmar,
Malika Booker, Roger Robinson, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rae Paris,
Kendel Hippolyte, Amali Rodrigo, Zaffar Kunial, Rishi Dastidar,
Raymond Antrobus, Mai Der Vang, Martin Espada, Inua Ellams,
Arundhathi Subramaniam, Gregory Pardlo, Edward Doegar, Degna Stone,
MacDonald Dixon, Ada Limon, Philip Metres, Nick Makoha, Nathalie
Handal, Lauren K Alleyne, Kevin Bowen, Bashabi Fraser, Satchid
Anandan. Co-publication with Newcastle University.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
October 2017 |
| Editors: |
Carolyn Forche
• Jackie Kay
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78037-392-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-78037-392-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781780373928 |
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