Kei Miller's work was acclaimed by the distinguished Jamaican
writer Olive Senior as 'Some of the most exciting poetry I've read
in years...An extraordinary new voice singing with clarity and
grace'. "A Light Song of Light" sings in the rhythms of ritual and
folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool
wit, finding the languages in which poetry can sing in dark times.
The book is in two parts: Day Time and Night Time, each exploring
the inseparable elements that together make a whole. Behind the
daylight world of community lies another, disordered, landscape:
stories of ghosts and bandits, a darkness violent and seductive. At
the heart of the collection is the Singerman, a member of Jamaica's
road gangs in the 1930s, whose job was to sing while the rest of
the gang broke stones. He is a presence both mundane and shamanic.
Kei Miller's poems celebrate 'our incredible and abundant lives',
facing the darkness and making from it a song of the light.
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