Dear colleagues,
See below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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Sent: 21 July 2017 10:16
To: Patricia Noxolo
Subject: new book on dub poetry
Dear Dr Noxolo,
My name is Eric Doumerc and I teach English at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, southwestern France. My research interests are Caribbean poetry, dub poetry and the Caribbean oral tradition.
I am taking the liberty of writing to you because I have been trying to send a message through the SCS mailing list about a new book on dub poetry that I authored and that message keeps "bouncing back" to me and comes out all "scrambled". I do not know if this is the done thing but I thought I would contact you about this.
I have pasted below some information about the book.
Yours sincerely,
Eric Doumerc
Dub Poets in Their Own Words (APS PUblications, 2017) is a journey into dub poetry from the dub poets' point of view. Contrary to other publications on this controversial art form, it proposes to let the practioners of the genre speak. Dub poetry has been studied from numerous methodological angles and has been plagued by debates and controversies over the years. Very rarely have dub poets been asked to give their opinion on their art form.
The interviews collected in this book were conducted over an eighteen-year period in Britain, Canada, Jamaica and the USA. The poets who were interviewed are Yasus Afari, Klyde Broox, Dreadlockalien, Mbala, Mutabaruka, Cherry Natural, Kokumo Noxid, Oku Onuora, Moqapi Selassie, and Malachi D Smith.
Eric Doumerc teaches English at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, in Toulouse, southwestern France. His research interests include Caribbean poetry, music, and the Caribbean oral tradition.
He edited Five Birmingham Poets ,an anthology of poems by black poets from the West Midlands which was published in 2006 by Raka Books, the late Roi Kwabena's publishing imprint.
In 2011, Smokestack Books published Celebrate Wha' : Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands (Middelesbrough : Smokestack Books, 2011), an anthology which he co-edited with the poet Roy McFarlane.
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