Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of investiture, held at King’s House on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, he was ...

It feels like everything is coming together in a way that’s pushing me to new heights,” Jackson told the Jamaica Observer ... fi Send Down are some of the poems that brought the Portland ...

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and chooses Poetry Please - Karen McCarthy Woolf. Karen is the award-winning poet of Jamaican-British heritage and shortlisted for the TS Eliot ...

J Chambers wrote this amazing poem to kick off Black History Month on Blue Peter, written especially for the show. J is a spoken word artist and takes his inspiration from his Jamaican heritage ...

McKay’s political radicalism was tied to his affinity with working-class life in all its diversity ­— a long-standing public commitment which began with his early Jamaican poems about the lives of ...