Echo-Mirror

Auteur

Klyde Broox is an award-winning Jamaican-born dubpoet, informal scholar, author and literary activist, with an international presence. Broox has been awarded the 1979 Nathan Brissett Poetry Prize in Jamaica, a 1992 James Michener Fellowship from the University of Miami, the 2005 Hamilton Arts Award for Literature and the 2011 Reverend John C. Holland Award for Arts Achievement. He has published two volumes of poetry: Poemstorm (Swansea, Wales, 1989) and the award-wining My Best Friend *I*s White (McGilligan Books, Toronto, 2005). He held a 2017 fellowship with McMaster University's Centre for Community-Engaged Narrative Arts, and was a 2018 finalist for the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Klyde Broox currently lives in Hamilton.

Texte du rabat

The long-awaited collection by much-loved dub poet Klyde Broox, *Echo-Mirro*r is a tour of his poetry over the decades. Filled with a rich voice and song, the poems within this collection are meant to be heard as much as read, but still resound on the page.