Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE WINTER 2023 Mike Ferguson In his insightful collection of

In his insightful collection of poems Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty

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Jaffo the Calypsonian (1994) Between Silence and Silence (2003)

compelling and raw

Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes <br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE WINTER 2023</b> Mike Ferguson In his insightful collection ofSturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the earliest days of Kwame Dawes' work as a poet, from the roots of childhood in Ghana to the reflections of a man turned sixty who is witnessing his children occupying the space he once considered his own. It ranges from poems that make something special of the everyday, to poems of the most astonishing imaginative leaps. There are poems that speak most movingly of moments of acute self