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The long-awaited collection by much-loved dubpoet Klyde Broox, Echo-Mirror is a tour of his writings over his lifetime.
Rich with voice and song, the poems and essays within this collection are meant to be heard as much as read but still resound on the page. Broox took aim at the cultural politics of writing in English, at inequality and at other injustices, with sharp images and strong rhythms, but he also wrote movingly of family and those lost along the way. These are works that question the status quo, celebrate Black voices and are a call to action. The words in this book leap off the page into the reader's heart.
Klyde Broox
Klyde Broox was an award-winning Jamaican-born dubpoet, informal scholar, author and literary activist, with an international presence. Broox was awarded the 1979 Nathan Brissett Poetry Prize in Jamaica, a 1992 James Michener Fellowship from the University of Miami, the 2005 Hamilton Arts Award for Literature and the 2011 Reverend John C. Holland Award for Arts Achievement. He published two volumes of poetry: Poemstorm (Swansea, Wales, 1989) and the award-wining My Best Friend Is White (McGilligan Books, Toronto, 2005). He held a 2017 fellowship with McMaster University's Centre for Community-Engaged Narrative Arts, and was a 2018 finalist for the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Klyde Broox lived in Hamilton.
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