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Excellence in the ordinary: the poetry of Peter Blackman
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Revolutionary poet Peter Blackman has never received his due in either the Caribbean or the UK, where he made his home from 1937. The author has gathered selected poems and a speech by Blackman into a new collection, Footprints (Smokestack Books). This article discusses Blackman’s life from ‘colonised’ schoolboy and missionary to Africa to railway worker in north London and sets his writing – especially his language – in the context of twentieth-century West Indian literature. Blackman, who befriended Paul Robeson in London and dedicated works to Claudia Jones, was clearly at the vortex of progressive black cultural expression, but has hitherto been overlooked.
Title: Excellence in the ordinary: the poetry of Peter Blackman
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Revolutionary poet Peter Blackman has never received his due in either the Caribbean or the UK, where he made his home from 1937.
The author has gathered selected poems and a speech by Blackman into a new collection, Footprints (Smokestack Books).
This article discusses Blackman’s life from ‘colonised’ schoolboy and missionary to Africa to railway worker in north London and sets his writing – especially his language – in the context of twentieth-century West Indian literature.
Blackman, who befriended Paul Robeson in London and dedicated works to Claudia Jones, was clearly at the vortex of progressive black cultural expression, but has hitherto been overlooked.
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