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Toggle Sidebar Caribbean poetry and reggae: A marriage in literature [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Al Creighton (Stabroek News) begins his article with an excerpt of Lorna Goodison’s poem “For Don Drummond,” to explore the organic connections between Caribbean poetry and reggae. In 1998, Peepal Tree Press in Leeds, UK, published Wheel and Come Again, An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, selected by Kwame Dawes. By that time, the connection between poetry and reggae music had been long established. So was the affinity between poets and musicians, as the selections demonstrate. Colin Channer, in the Preface, called it Caribbean poetry’s tribute to reggae music, but it goes much deeper as Dawes interrogated in his Introduction. Caribbean poetry and reggae music connect in various ways, many of which make themselves evident in the selections, sometimes the poets, and sometimes musicians to whom some poems are dedicated. Additionally, the

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