The Jamaican Government will be allocating additional funds to the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme according to an announcement by Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister, Hon. Olivia Grange, and relayed to the public in a speech delivered by library chief Joy Douglas, at a recent launch of ‘Last Reel’, a new poetry collection by Poet Laureate (2014-2017), Professor Mervyn Morris.
KINGSTON, Jamaica The Government will be allocating additional funds for the development and execution of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme.
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Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia “Babsy” Grange has announced that internationally acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes will be the next Poet Laureate of Jamaica. Minister Grange said that Dawes emerged as the most suitable person after a public nomination process, which was followed by a seven-member committee vote administered by the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ). His investiture of as the Poet Laureate of Jamaica for.
Internationally acclaimed poet, Professor Kwame Dawes, will be the next Poet Laureate of Jamaica. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, disclosed that Professor Dawes emerged as the most suitable person for the.