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Jamaica: when poets join academia

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Arts & Culture, Ideas, Literature

UK-based Jamaican writer Kei Miller muses [1] on the consequences of poets joining the academic world. “Poetry is certainly not known for its plain-spoken-ness and in fact is accused, just as much as the academy, for its obscurity and its pretensions. And this is as it should be!”