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Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean

By Peekash Press & Kwame Dawes
Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean by Peekash Press & Kwame Dawes digital book - Fable

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Eight talented Caribbean poets are featured in this second publication from Peekash Press.

Featuring a preface by Kwame Dawes.

Featuring poems from: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Danielle Jennings, Ruel Johnson, Monica Minott, Debra Providence, Shivanee Ramlochan, Colin Robinson, and Sassy Ross. With a preface by Kwame Dawes.

With a generous sample from each poet, this anthology is an opportunity to discover some of the best, new, previously unpublished voices from the Caribbean. This is a generation that has absorbed Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Martin Carter, and Lorna Goodison, while finding its own distinctive voice.

Peekash Press is a collaboration between Akashic and UK-based publisher Peepal Tree Press, with a focus on publishing writers from and still living in the Caribbean. The debut title from Peekash, Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, was published in 2014.

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“I really enjoyed "Coming Up Hot." I love that it is a compilation of 8 poets as you get a nice, varied perspective. All the poets are from the Caribbean and the publisher (Akashic Books) has the goal of elevating voices that are typically overlooked. It's truly wonderful to learn about this publisher and I am especially happy that Hoopla Digital carries this title. I loved being able to read these authors that I wouldn't otherwise have heard about. I definitely recommend this book!”

About Peekash Press

Peekash Press is a collaboration between Akashic and UK-based publisher Peepal Tree Press, with a focus on publishing writers from and still living in the Caribbean.

Kwame Dawes

KWAME DAWES is the author of numerous books of poetry and other works of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent poetry collection is Sturge Town which was published by Peepal Tree Press in the UK and W.W. Norton in the US. Dawes is a George W. Holmes University Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. He teaches in the Pacific MFA Program and is the series editor of the African Poetry Book Series, director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. He is a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dawes is the winner of the prestigious Windham/Campbell Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2022, Kwame Dawes was awarded the Order of Distinction Commander class by the Government of Jamaica, and in 2024, he was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica.

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