News for Babylon

News for Babylon: the Chatto book of Westindian-British poetry was a 1984 anthology of West Indian and black British poetry, edited by James Berry and published by Chatto & Windus. The anthology included work by Wilson Harris, Faustin Charles, Rudolph Kizerman, Valerie Bloom, John Agard, Fred D'Aguiar, Samuel Selvon, E. A. Markham,[1] Grace Nichols, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Archie Pool and Benjamin Zephaniah. A Poetry Review reviewer commented on the way that the language seemed "to slip unselfconsciously from Creole to standard English between or within poems, creating a dialogue or polyphony of discourses in which the unequal encounter of two cultures is directly enacted."[2]

News for Babylon: the Chatto book of Westindian-British poetry
EditorDavid Dabydeen
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Chatto & Windus
Pagesxxvii, 212
ISBN9780701127961
OCLC12721835

The anthology quickly sold out. Though never reissued, it "remains a standard text in educational institutions teaching colonial and post-colonial literature".[1]

References

  1. David Dabydeen (2007). "News for Babylon". In David Dabydeen; John Gilmore; Cecily Jones (eds.). The Oxford Companion to Black British History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923894-1.
  2. 'News for Babylon', Poetry Review, Vol. 74, No 2. Reprinted online here.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.