Dawes, Kwame
About Kwame Dawes
Biography (Poetry International Archives)
Reviews
Rumens, Carol. "Poem of the Week: 'Akwaba' by Kwame Dawes." The Guardian, 17 Aug. 2020
Lamia, Zaibi. "City of Bones: A Testament." World Literature Today, vol. 91, no. 5, 2017
Robert, Flemming. "She's Gone." Black Issues Book Review, vol. 9, no. 3, 2007
Interviews
Lee, Rossi. "An Interview with Kwame Dawes." Chattahoochee Review, vol. 33, no. 1, 2013
Laux, Dorianne, and Joseph Miller. "An Interview with Kwame Dawes." American Poetry Review, vol. 41, no. 1, 2012
Walter P., Collins. "Kwame Dawes: An Interview with Walter P. Collins, III." Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, vol. 8, no. 2, 2007
Criticism
Rutenberg, Brian. "The Body". Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 91, no. 1, 2015
Works
Novels
Hold Me to an Island: Caribbean Place: An Anthology of Writing (2012)
Bivouac (2010)
She's Gone (2007)
A Place to Hide and Other Stories (2002)
Poetry Collections
City of Bones (2017)
Speaking From Here to There: A Cycle of Poems (2016)
Wheels (2011)
Back of Mount Peace (2009)
Hope's Hospice (2009)
Gomer's Song (2007)
Impossible Flying (2007)
I Saw Your Face (2005)
Bruised Totems (2004)
New and Selected Poems (2003)
Midland (2001)
Mapmaker (2000)
Shook Foil (1998)
Requiem (1996)
Resisting the Anomie (1995)
Prophets (1995)
Progeny of Air (1994)
Plays/Scripts
One Love (2001)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
"Deaf Resistance." Literary Imagination, vol. 20, no. 2, 2018
A Far Cry From Plymouth: A Personal Narrative (2007)
Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius (2002)
Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets (2001)
Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic (1999)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Kwame Dawes Reads his Poem 'In This Say'. YouTube, 13 Dec. 2019
Kwame Dawes Reads his Poem 'Tornado Child'. YouTube, 22 Mar. 2011
Kwame Dawes Presents his Poem 'New Day'. YouTube, 23 Jan. 2009