Free (DRM-free) Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Carribean [Poetry Anthology]

[ATDrake]

Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean with a preface by Ghana-born Jamaican author Kwame Dawes (Wikipedia), a recipient of the Pushcart Prize and also an Emmy Award, who incidentally studied and taught at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, is a literary anthology featuring extensive selections by promising upcoming new poets from countries throughout the Caribbean, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Akashic Books, who are generously running a holiday advent calendar promotion.

This is the second title in a Caribbean-centric joint venture between Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press in the UK. We've previously received the first, the Pepperpot Stories anthology of literary fiction, just last week, if you're in the mood to do some regionally-themed reading.

Currently free until midnight December 20th directly @ the publisher's promotional blogpost (DRM-free ePub & Mobi available worldwide), and you can read more about the book and see the full list of contributing authors and their stories on its regular catalogue page.

Description
Featuring a preface by Kwame Dawes.

Featuring poems from: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Danielle Jennings, Ruel Johnson, Monica Minott, Debra Providence, Shivanee Ramlochan, Colin Robinson, and Sassy Ross. With a preface by Kwame Dawes.

With a generous sample from each poet, this anthology is an opportunity to discover some of the best, new, previously unpublished voices from the Caribbean. This is a generation that has absorbed Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, Martin Carter, and Lorna Goodison, while finding its own distinctive voice.

Peekash Press is a collaboration between Akashic and UK-based publisher Peepal Tree Press, with a focus on publishing writers from and still living in the Caribbean. The debut title from Peekash, Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean, was published in 2014.