Sturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with
the earliest days of Kwame Dawes’ work as a poet, from the roots
of childhood in Ghana to the reflections of a man turned sixty who
is witnessing his children occupying the space he once considered
his own. It ranges from poems that make something special of the
everyday, to poems of the most astonishing imaginative leaps. There
are poems that speak most movingly of moments of acute
self-reflection, family crises and losses through death, and there
are the inventive poems of the dramatist drawn to create the
stories of a rich variety of characters, many springing from the
observation of paintings. Metrically careful and sonorous, these
poems engage in a personal dialogue with the reader, serious,
confessional, alarmed and sometimes teasing. They create highly
visualised spaces, observed, remembered, imagined, the scenes of
both outward and inner journeys. Organised in five sections, Sturge
Town is a collection of finely shaped individual poems with the
architecture of a densely interconnected whole, with the soaring
grandeur and intimacy of a cathedral – both above and below
ground. As the site of the ruined ancestral home of the Dawes, in
one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge
Town is both an actual place, a place of myth and a metaphor of the
journeying that has taken Kwame Dawes from Ghana, through Jamaica,
through South Carolina and now to Nebraska. It parallels a
journeying through time, both personal, family and ancestral in
which a keen sense of mortality makes life all the more precious.
General
| Imprint: |
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Kwame Dawes
|
| Dimensions: |
206 x 135mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
158 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84523-574-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-84523-574-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781845235741 |
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