BOOK REVIEWS

-- “Review of Pacale Petit and Penelope Shuttle’s new collections.” Poetry London

Newsletter , Fall 1998.

-- "Review of Jackie Kay's Trumpet." Emerge Magazine, March 1999.

-- "Review of Elizabeth Nunez's Byond the Limbo Silence" Washington Post, December

1998.

-- "Review of Mark Doty’s Sweet Machine" Poetry Review , UK .

-- "Review of new collections by Mimi Khalvati, Beverley Braune and Lucille Clifton."

Poetry Review , UK , Winter 1998.

-- "Review of Evan Jones’ Stone Haven" World Literature Today (WLT) (Winter 1998).

-- "Review of Dominic Head’s J.M. Coetzee." African Affairs: Journal of the Royal

Africa Society.

-- "Review of Christine Loftlin’s African Horizons: The Landscapes of African Fiction."

African Affairs: Journal of the Royal Africa Society.

--”Review of Nurrudin Farah’s Secrets.” Emerge Magazine, Fall 1998.

--”Review of Patricia Cumper’s One Bright Child.” World Literature Today.

--”Review of Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze’s On the Edge of An Island. World Literature Today.

--”Review of Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara.” World Literature Today (Forthcoming).

--”Review of Gavrielle Groves -Gidney’s The Last Assignment.” World Literature Today.

--”Review of Leonie Ross’s All the Blood is Red.” World Literature Today.

--”Review of Rosemary Marangoly George’s The Politics of Home: Postcolonial

Relocations and Twentieth century Fiction .” Critique (Fall 1997).

--“Review of Bessie Head’s Thunder Behind her Ears.” African Affairs 95.381 (1996):

605-606.

--“Review of Achebe or Soyinka: A study in contrasts.” African Affairs 95.381 (1996):

618-619.

--”Calypso, Carnival and Quiet Concentration: A review of Grace Nichols and Kendel

Hippolyte.” Poetry London Newsletter, Fall 1997.

--“Vagabonds, Rogues and Murders.” (Review of Soyinka’s The Open Sore of A

Continent .) Book World: Washington Post, November 10, 1996.

--“Once On This Island.” (Review of Lovelace’s Salt.) Book World: Washington Post.

March 30, 1997.

--”Review of Kwesi Brew” World Literature Today (Winter 1997).

--”Review of Stewart Brown’s (ed.) The Art of Kamau Brathwaite.” World Literature

Today (Winter 1997): 202-203.

--"Review of Stewart Brown’s (Ed) The Pressure of the Text: Orality, Texts and the

Telling of Tales ." African Affairs: Journal of the Royal Africa Society (October 1997).

--“Review of Geoffrey Philp’s Florida Bound.” Journal of Caribbean Literatures (1997).

--“A Genuine Caribbean Text: A Review of Lawrence Scott’s Witchbroom.” Journal of

Caribbean Literatures (1997).

--"Review of Lawrence Scott's Ballad for the New World."Chimo, Summer 1995.

--"Review of Olive Senior's Gardening in the Tropics." Chimo #29 (1994): 29-34.

--"Review of Alecia McKenzie's Satellite City. Chimo #28 (1994): 42-44.

--"Review of Mervyn Morris's Examination Centre." Chimo #27 (1993): 26-32.

--"Review of Turn Thanks and Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems.” The Caribbean Writer. 15 th Anniversary Issue. Volume 15. 2001 (148-151).

--“Review of Veronica Marie Gregg’s Jean Rhy’s Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole.” Ariel, 29:3, July 1998. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina P. 1996.(188-190)

-- Review of H.D. Carberry’s, “It Takes a Mighty Fire, H. D. Carberry and Heather Royes’ The Caribbean Raj.”

The Caribbean Writer , Volume 13, 1999 (244-251).

-- “Something to Say. Kwame Dawes on Marcia Douglas, Ishmael Fiifi Annobil and Jack Mapanje.” Poetry Review. Volume 89, No. 4. Winter 1999/2000. 69-72.

-- “Opera of Atmospheres. Kwame Dawes on Mark Doty.” Poetry Review. Volume 89, No. 1. Spring 1999. 104-106.

--“Troubadours, Song and Dance . Kwame Dawes on Jean “Binta” Breeze and Patience Agbabi.” Poetry Review. Volume 90, No. 3. Autumn 2000. 24-26.

-- “Stone Butterflies and the Pleasure of Sex.” Kwame Dawes on Penelope Shuttle and Pascale Petit. Poetry London, Newsletter. Spring 1999, No. 32.

-- “ Review of “Wild Reckoning” and “The Thunder Mutters.” Poetry London. Summer --2005.

-- “ Review of Regie Cabico and Todd Swift.” The Harpweaver, Volume 7, Summer 2000.

-- Review, Theatrum, February/March 1991. Issue 22.

-- “Calypso, Carnival and Quiet Concentration. Kwame Dawes celebrates two Caribbean voices.” Poetry London, Newsletter. Volume 28, Autumn 1997.

OTHER SCHOLARLY WORK
Dawes, Kwame.“ Violence and the Position of Race, Religion, and Gender in Jamaican Fiction and Drama.” Dissertation Abstracts International 53.12 (1993).

PROFESSIONAL EDITING

-- Atlas , Issue 1, 2006, Contributing Editor

-- Obsidian II, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring-Summer, Fall-Winter. Criticism Editor.

-- Obsidian III , Volume 1, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1999. Criticism Editor.

-- Obsidian III , Volume 2, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2000-2001. Guest Editor. “Introduction, Catch Afire – New Jamaican Writing.” (10-12)

-- Obsidian III , Volume 3, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2001. Criticism Editor

-- Obsidian III , Volume 3, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2001-2002. Criticism Editor

-- Obsidian III, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2002-2003. Criticism Editor

-- Obsidian III , Volume 4, Number 1, Spring/Summer, 2002. Criticism Editor

-- Obsidian III , Volume 6, Number 1, Spring-Summer 2005. Criticism and Poetry Editor

-- Obsidian III , Volume 11, Numbers 1& 2, Spring-Summer, Fall-Winter, 1996. Criticism Editor

--The Los Angeles Review, Number 2, 2005, Contributing Editor

-- Signals by Ed Madden. The University of South Carolina Press. (forthcoming)

VISUAL ARTS

-- “Where Gods and Mortals Meet, Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art.” 2005. Poems based on the Art Exhibition.

-- Beulah Poems. (Poems written after viewing the sculptings of Edna Manley.)

AUDIO

-- Poetry in Performance . Volume One. 57 Productions. Kwame Dawes.