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Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet a...

From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism.Facing You is a...

Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by Malawi's dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, chronicling his prison experiences w...

An epic, lyrical journey through the pulsating heart and underground soul of inner-city London. Misty premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 201...

Winner of a 2022 Palestine Book Award “Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with na...

"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."—Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater tha...

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ...

This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters ...

"Few poets of the last thirty years have approached his diversity of formal innovations; few have communicated so intensively via performances and ...

"In The Waving Gallery, Mervyn Taylor continues his poetic journey through the paces of the human predicament. The poems explore the painful and fo...

Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented...

In Passport to Here and There Grace Nichols traces a journey that moves from the coastal memories of a Guyana childhood to life in Britain and her ...

Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hopeIcelight, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth...

Using queer theory to untangle all types of nonnormative sexual identities, Tison Pugh uses Chaucer's work to expose the ongoing tension in the Mid...

High Desert is an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wil...

Shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize for Best CollectionChoman Hardi’s Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigr...

A contemporary woman makes complex negotiations with history and culture in a voice equally strong, discerning, God-soaked, and edgycreating music ...

The first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time Magazine. In their bold ...

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented ...

In this profile, Emma Donoghue tells the story of two eccentric Victorian spinsters: Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862...