Poetry Caribbean & Latin American
My Best Friend is White
- Publisher
- McGilligan Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2005
- Category
- Caribbean & Latin American
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894692137
- Publish Date
- Oct 2005
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Winner of the 2005 City of Hamilton Arts Award for Literature.
About the author
Klyde Broox is an award-winning Jamaican-born dubpoet, informal scholar, author and literary activist, with an international presence. Broox has been 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 has 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 currently lives in Hamilton.
