COOLIE ODYSSEY

David Dabydeen

David Dabydeen’s first book of poems, Slave Song, was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Cambridge University Quiller-Couch Prize.

Coolie Odyssey, his second collection, probes the experience of diaspora, the journeying of peasant labourers from India to the Caribbean then to Britain, dwelling on the dream of romance, the impotence of racial encounter, the metamorphosis of language.

• 198 x 129 mm
• 56 pages
• Paperback