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The Same Earth
Orion 2010; US$ 20.83After the hurricane of 1974, Jamaica is devastated. Imelda Richardson is sent to England, without a place to stay or a plan of what to do. Luckily sheis taken in by Purletta Johnson, a member of the ex-pat bourgeoisie who has decided to become more Jamaican than any Jamaican: sucking her teeth, sporting a gold tooth, and growing ganja on her balcony.... more...
The Last Warner Woman
Orion 2010; US$ 20.83A writer is on a journey to discover the true story of The Original Pearline Portious, a young woman who ended up working in a leper colony when she tried and failed to sell her purple doily in the local market. Pearline has a fondness for colours, BRIGHT colours, and it is only amongst the leper colony that she finds takers for her unusual knitting... more...
The Same Earth
Orion 2010; Not AvailableAfter the hurricane of 1974, Jamaica is devastated. Imelda Richardson is sent to England, without a place to stay or a plan of what to do. Luckily sheis taken in by Purletta Johnson, a member of the ex-pat bourgeoisie who has decided to become more Jamaican than any Jamaican: sucking her teeth, sporting a gold tooth, and growing ganja on her balcony.... more...
The Last Warner Woman
Orion 2010; Not AvailableA writer is on a journey to discover the true story of The Original Pearline Portious, a young woman who ended up working in a leper colony when she tried and failed to sell her purple doily in the local market. Pearline has a fondness for colours, BRIGHT colours, and it is only amongst the leper colony that she finds takers for her unusual knitting... more...
A Light Song of Light
Carcanet 2010; US$ 14.51Kei 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... more...
There is an Anger That Moves
Carcanet 2012; US$ 14.51The six sequences of There Is an Anger that Moves travel from Jamaica to England and back. A mother's heart is broken; men fall in love secretly; people dance until they die. Religion haunts these disbelieving poems which move sometimes to the measure of a hymn, sometimes to the cadence of a Baptist sermon. Each swells with its own conviction, even... more...
A Light Song of Light
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2010; US$ 15.95Exploring the relationship between poetry and song, the pieces in this collection work to define the elemental human struggles of good versus evil and light against darkness. The poems take different shapesnewly forged dictionary definitions; praise-songs celebrating the Singerman in a Jamaican road gang; and simple narratives of ghosts,... more...
There Is an Anger That Moves
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2007; US$ 15.99Diverse in theme as well as form, this new collection explodes onto the page with a maturity and dynamism rarely seen in such a young poet. Using language full of unique beauty and charisma, Miller writes everything from love poems to biblical chronicles, exploring themes such as conflicting identity, home and family, and the spirit of his Jamaican... more...
The Last Warner Woman
Coffee House Press 2012; US$ 12.99The American debut of a Caribbean literary talent often compared to Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy and Alexander McCall Smith. more...
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