A Light Song of Light by Kei Miller

A Light Song of Light by Kei Miller

Sings in the rhythms of ritual and folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool wit, finding the languages in which poetry can sing in dark times.

Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978 and has written several books across a range of genres. His 2014 collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection while his 2017 Novel, Augustown, won the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Prix Les Afriques, and the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde. He is also an award-winning essayist. In 2010, the Institute of Jamaica awarded him the Silver Musgrave medal for his contributions to Literature and in 2018 he was awarded the Anthony Sabga medal for Arts & Letters. Kei has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. He has taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Royal Holloway and Exeter. He is the 2019 Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor to the University of Iowa and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Author photo © Christine Fourie. Kei Miller has a page on the Poetry Archive website, where you can listen to recordings of his poetry and access other useful resources. Click here.

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ISBN 13	9781847771032
ISBN 10	1847771033
Title	A Light Song of Light
Author	Kei Miller
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	2010-07-28
Number of pages	80
Prizes	Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2010
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