{"title":"Dorothea Smartt","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eDorothea Smartt\u003c\/strong\u003e, born and raised in London, is of Barbadian heritage. Described as ‘accessible and dynamic’, her poetry appears in several journals and ground-breaking anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eIC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), and \u003cem\u003eA Storm Between Fingers\u003c\/em\u003e (Flipped Eye, 2007). \n\nShe has exhibited at London’s Museum in Docklands, as part of the residency\/exhibition project 'TradeWinds-LandFall’ between London and Houston, Texas.","products":[{"product_id":"the-north-47-25-years-in-the-north","title":"The North 47: 25 Years in the North","description":"\"Stars in the north are seen not to set.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems, articles, reviews and features - including 25 year poems and reflections on 25 years of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus Poets I Go Back To, The Collection and Blind Criticism. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Smith\/Doorstop (The Poetry Business)","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1040766284,"sku":"22305-0269-9885","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_71c19a2f-369e-4395-8bcb-aadb933a4eed.jpeg?v=1752237112"},{"product_id":"red-contemporary-black-british-poetry","title":"Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry","description":"\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful new anthology of work by Black British poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with writing that throbs and pulses and seeps and flows.\" \u003cbr\u003eMargaret Busby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e collects poems that engage 'red', poems by Black British poets writing with the word 'red' in mind—as a kind of leap-off point, a context, a germ—the way something small, minor, or grand might spur a poem. It offers the reader the freedom to come to whatever conclusions they want to about what writing as a poet who is also Black and British might mean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a book of poets ranging from well-established and published writers to first time poets. \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e does find its usual associations with blood, violence, passion, and anger. Sometimes it is linked with sensuality and sexuality. But there are surprises, when red defines a memory or mood, the quality of light in a sky, the colour of skin, the sound of a song, and much, much more. The anthology, therefore, succeeds in producing poems that seem to be first about image, and only then about whatever else fascinates the poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sense, \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is a different kind of anthology of Black British writing, and the richness of the entries, the moods, the humour, the passion, the reflection, the confessional all confirm that Black British poetry is a lively and defining force in Britain today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor Kwame Dawes is a poet, novelist, playwright and critic. His work as an organiser and deliverer of poetry workshops has been hailed in many parts of the world, not least in the UK, USA and Jamaica, where he has been the Literary programmer of the Calabash International Literature Festival for the past ten years. His work as an editor received wide praise for \u003ci\u003eWheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e is published by Inscribe, an imprint of Peepal Tree. The Inscribe Series Editor is Kadija Sesay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKwame Dawes\u003c\/b\u003e is widely acknowledged as the foremost Caribbean poet of the post-Walcott generation. He currently holds the position of Distinguished Poet In Residence and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041100660,"sku":"9781845231293","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_58dc73c3-5255-4b26-8256-25d89c3a0037.jpeg?v=1752237646"},{"product_id":"connecting-medium","title":"Connecting Medium","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eConnecting Medium\u003c\/i\u003e links the past to the present, the Caribbean to England, mothers to fathers. Here are poems about identity and culture, generations and the future. A powerful sequence of poems about a black Medusa. Poems that link the material world to the spiritual one. Poems that recreate a sixties childhood in South London in vivid detail. \u003ci\u003eConnecting Medium\u003c\/i\u003e is full of energy and life. Hers is a bright, passionate voice.\"\u003cbr\u003eJackie Kay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothea Smartt\u003c\/b\u003e, born and raised in London, is of Barbadian heritage. Described as ‘accessible and dynamic’, her poetry appears in several journals and ground-breaking anthologies.","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041117412,"sku":"9781900715508","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_abda11bc-7715-4fdb-8888-53e7d6f58f3e.jpeg?v=1752236977"},{"product_id":"reader-i-married-him-other-queer-goings-on","title":"Reader I Married Him \u0026 Other Queer Goings On","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the first poem to the last, Smartt’s new chapbook collection advocates a revolutionary decampment from the madhouse of desires “reigned in” to protect a precarious and often incoherent code of Caribbean respectability. This is Smartt at her sensual and lyrical best. These poems sing, and dance and love passionately ‘til morning cum.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the hazardous terrain of same-sex loving in Jamaica for some couples, to the manipulation of heterosexual marriage conventions in Barbados in the name of love, to the freedom of sexual abandon and the fulfilment of desire in Amsterdam, this small body of work is subversive, radical, and surprisingly panoramic. Smartt’s cartography renders new the old directive that we love each other, that we build and sustain community, that we protect and care for each other’s needs, desires and dreams. Ultimately, Reader, I Married Him \u0026amp; Other Queer Goings On is about Black diasporic love at its most radical and life-affirming.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDorothea Smartt is a literary activist, live artist, and established and respected poet with an international reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041338528,"sku":"9781845232870","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/peepal_tree_press_-_reader_i_married_him.jpeg?v=1752236460"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/dorothea-smartt\/peter-finch.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}