Publications

Recent Essays

2026 ‘Commentary on Ian McDonald’s late poetry’ in Ian McDonald, The Impossibility of Nothingness, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, 2026.
2025 ‘A memory of The Anne Walmsley’ in Guest Bloggers, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press website.
2025 ‘All he ever tried to paint was the light’, a review of Lawrence Scott’s Looking for Cazabon, in BIM, vol. 12, 2025, p.268–271.
2023 ‘Celebrating my return to Jamaica’, in The Sunday Gleaner (Dec. 31st, 2023).
2022 ‘For Derek Walcott’ (poem and essay) in In Various Light: Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930–2017, eds. Helen Goethals and Eric Doumerc, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars, p.171–174.
2022 ‘Who is “the other” anyway’, in Is English We Speaking: African/Caribbean Dialogue, ed. Jane Bryce, on the website of Writers Mosaic, a project of the Royal Literary Fund.

Books

2026 Still Mekin Foolishness: Collected Poems 1975–2025, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press. (Forthcoming)
2012 The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writers on West Indian Cricket, (co-ed with Ian McDonald) Leeds, Peepal Tree Press.
2009 ‘Stanley Graves in conversation’: Afterword to The Poems Man, by Stanley Graves, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press.
2007 Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on Poetry, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press.
2006 Poems by Martin Carter, (co-ed with Ian McDonald) Oxford, Macmillan Caribbean.
2005 The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, (co-ed with Mark McWatt) Oxford, Oxford University Press.
2004 ‘Introduction’ to Words Need Love Too by Kamau Brathwaite, Cambridge, Salt Publishing, p. xi–xxvi.
2002 ‘Words to refute cultures that wear boots: the poetry of Stanley Greaves’, Afterword to Horizons by Stanley Greaves, Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, p.137–143.
2001 Kiss and Quarrel: Yoruba/English: Strategies of Mediation, (ed.) Birmingham, CWAS African Studies Series.
2000 ‘All Are Involved’: The Art of Martin Carter, (ed.) Leeds, Peepal Tree Press.