New Day Cliff Yates the mesmerising imagery and haunting

the mesmerising imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly introspective poetry are as powerful today as they were when he poured forth his extraordinary and unclassifiable volume of work

The English Earthquake and Bargain with the Watchman and her Double Crossing: New and Selected Poems has recently appeared

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From Why I do not write in my native language by Carmen Bugan

New Day Cliff Yates the mesmerising imagery and hauntingNew Day is set on the eve of the achievement of universal adult suffrage in Jamaica in 1944 and the rise of the mass political parties of the nationalist movement. It is told through the memories of John Campbell, an old man whose memories go back to the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865, when after years of drought and repression a peasant rebellion lead by a Baptist Deacon Paul Bogle briefly flared and was then put down with the utmost savagery,