Miller, Kei
About Kei Miller
Biography (The Poetry Archive)
“Jamaican Kei Miller Wins OCM Bocas Prize.” Bocas Lit Fest, 2017
Davies, Caroline. “Kei Miller Wins Forward Poetry Prize.” The Guardian, 2014
Reviews
Leonard, Dominic. “In Nearby Bushes.” TLS, no. 6104, Mar. 2020
Lee, John Robert. “The Poetry of Kei Miller.” PN Review, vol. 46, no. 6, July 2020
White, Ashanti. “Augustown.” Library Journal, vol. 142, no. 7, Apr. 2017
“Augustown.” Publishers Weekly, vol. 264, no. 11, Mar. 2017
Duff, Valerie. “Mapping Kei Miller’s Zion.” The Critical Flame, vol. 34, Feb. 2015
Hong, Terry. “Augustown.” Booklist, vol. 113, no. 14, Mar. 2017
White, Ashanti. “The Last Warner Woman.” Library Journal, vol. 137, no. 3, Feb. 2012
O’Callaghan, Evelyn. “Writing States of Independence: Erna Brodber and Kei Miller.” Kunapipi, vol. 34, no. 2, 2012
Newson-Horst, Adele S. “The Last Warner Woman.” World Literature Today, vol. 86, no. 3, May 2012
Le Gendre, Kevin. “The Same Earth, by Kei Miller.” Independent, 23 Oct. 2011
Frederiksen, Lynn E. “Kei Miller’s Debut Novel.” Caribbean Writer, vol. 23, Jan. 2009
Brigley, Zoe. “Kingdom of Empty Bellies.” Ready Steady Book, 13 Apr. 2007
Interviews
Romdhani, Rebecca. “(Re)Locating Madness and Prophesy: An Interview with Kei Miller.” Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge, Ledent et al. (eds.), 2018
Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview with Kei Miller.” Brick, vol. 101, 2018
Criticism
Woolf, Karen McCarthy. “Hybrid Hierophanies: Where Rastafari Meets Religious Ecology in Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, vol. 3, no. 1, Jun. 2019
Lê, Aimée. “Without the Text at Hand: Postcolonial Writing and the Work of Memorisation.” Poetry and Work: Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry, Walton and Luker (eds.), 2019
Alonso Alonso, María. “The Rhetoric of Movement: Exploring the Art of Mapping in Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion.” Océanide, vol. 11, 2019
Wójcik, Bartosz. “‘Under the Saltire Flag’: Kei Miller’s Spatial Negotiations of Identity.” The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature, Szuba and Wolfreys (eds.), 2019
Romdhani, Rebecca. “Minor Genres and Marginal Realities: Kei Miller’s Blog Posts and Facebook Notes.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 54, no. 1, 2018
O‘ Callaghan, Evelyn. “Migrant Madness or Poetics of Spirit? Teaching Fiction by Erna Brodber and Kei Miller.” Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge, Ledent et al. (eds.), 2018
Alonso, María Alonso. “The Caribbean.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 50, no. 4, Dec. 2015
Wójcik, Bartosz. “‘Your Journey, Even When Bumpy,/Will Be Sweet’: Jamaica in Kei Miller’s A Light Song of Light.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 23, no. 1–2, Apr. 2015
Lamount, Amorella. “Reading Revival Sounds: Kei Miller’s The Last Warner Woman.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 20, no. 1, Nov. 2011
Harrison, Sheri-Marie. “The Caribbean.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 42, no. 4, Dec. 2007
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
By the Rivers of Babylon (2017)
The Last Warner Woman (2010)
Novels
Augustown (2016)
The Same Earth (2008)
Short Story Collections
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies (2013)
Poetry Collections
In Nearby Bushes (2019)
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (2014)
A Light Song of Light (2010)
There is an anger that moves (2007)
Kingdom of Empty Bellies (2005)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“If I Could Write This on Zinc, I Would Write It on Zinc.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 49, no. 3, 2014
“Poetry in the Age of Hypermedia (or - an Introduction to the Hyperpoem).” Wasafiri, vol. 29, no. 3, 2014
“Government Cows.” Iowa Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2008
“‘But in Glasgow, There Are Plantains‘.” International Journal of Scottish Literature, vol. 4, 2008
“Calabash, Broken.” Caribbean Writer, vol. 18, Jan. 2004
“The Shaman’s Prayer.” Caribbean Writer, vol. 17, Jan. 2003
Audio and Audiovisual Material
poetryEast with Kei Miller, Interviewed by Maitreyabandhu. YouTube, 20 Aug. 2020
Outriders Africa: Meet Kei Miller, Edinburgh International Book Festival. YouTube, 13 Feb. 2020
Kei Miller Interviewed by Elleke Boehmer. YouTube, 14 Oct. 2019
“Jamaican Letters”, Marlon James, Nicole Dennis-Benn and Kei Miller in Conversation. YouTube, 26 Sep. 2019
Biographical Video About Kei Miller. YouTube, 17 May 2018
Interview With Kei Miller. YouTube, 11 Sep. 2014
Kei Miller Reads 'Unsung'. YouTube, 11 Sep. 2014
Kei Miller Reads 'The Longest Song'. YouTube, 11 Sep. 2014
Kei Miller reads 'The Law Concerning Mermaids'.YouTube, 11 Sep. 2014
Kei Miller – New Poems. YouTube, 27 Mar. 2013
Kei Miller – 'Jamaica'. YouTube, 26 Jul. 2012
Kei Miller and Carolyn Forché in Conversation. YouTube, undated