News for Babylon
1984 anthology edited by James Berry
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News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of Westindian-British Poetry was a 1984 anthology of West Indian and black British poetry, edited by Jamaican poet James Berry and published in London by Chatto & Windus. The anthology included work by Wilson Harris, Faustin Charles, Rudolph Kizerman, Valerie Bloom, John Agard, Fred D'Aguiar, Samuel Selvon, E. A. Markham,[1] Grace Nichols, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Archie Pool and Benjamin Zephaniah. A Poetry Review reviewer commented on the way that the language seemed "to slip unselfconsciously from Creole to standard English between or within poems, creating a dialogue or polyphony of discourses in which the unequal encounter of two cultures is directly enacted."[2]
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| Editor | James Berry |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | xxvii, 212 |
| ISBN | 9780701127961 |
| OCLC | 12721835 |
The anthology quickly sold out. Though never reissued, it "remains a standard text in educational institutions teaching colonial and post-colonial literature".[1]
