Make the World New
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Make the World New

The Poetry of Lillian Allen

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  2. English
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Make the World New

The Poetry of Lillian Allen

About this book

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and offering exciting sounds of protest and a careful, detailed documenting of everyday life as political praxis.

Make the World New brings together some of the highlights of Lillian Allen's work in a single volume. It revisits her well-known verse from the celebrated collections Rhythm an' Hardtimes, Women Do This Everyday, and Psychic Unrest, while also assembling new and uncollected poems. Allen's poetry is incisive in its narration of Black life and its call to create new and different futures. Her work highlights the need for radical intersectional change as a process of social transformation.

Allen's afterword, "Tuning the Heart with Poetry," includes the writer's reflections on her process and the social and cultural impact of the work. The introduction, by Ronald Cummings, engages with the duality of Lillian Allen's poetry in its written and spoken forms, and the give and take in committing poems to the page that "are not meant to lay still." He also reflects on the dynamism of Allen's dub poetry, where, for example, her portrayal of breaths and breathings take on new resonance in the era of Black Lives Matter and COVID-19.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Biographical Note
  8. Introduction: Making Wor(l)ds Anew: Lillian Allen’s Poetics
  9. Queenie Queenie and the Fall of Colonial Empire
  10. Trust
  11. JAMAICA – I Remember
  12. Nellie Belly Swelly
  13. My Momma
  14. Marriage
  15. Birth
  16. To the Child
  17. Broken
  18. Conditions Critical
  19. Nicaragua
  20. Dictator (For Haiti)
  21. Could it Happen in America
  22. The Wait of History
  23. Song for Newfoundland
  24. Rasta in Court
  25. With Criminal Intent
  26. Unnatural Causes
  27. In These Canadian Bones
  28. Revolution from de Beat
  29. Rub A Dub Style Inna Regent Park
  30. Dark Winds
  31. I Fight Back
  32. Feminism 101
  33. Good Womanhood (Censorship)
  34. Billie Holiday
  35. To a Jazz Musician (Contemplating Suicide)
  36. The Poetry of Things
  37. PO E 3
  38. One Poem Town
  39. Riddim An’ Hardtimes
  40. Liberation Comes
  41. I Dream a Redwood
  42. Liberation
  43. A Poem Against Things
  44. Pandemic
  45. Revolutionary Tea Party
  46. Dis Word
  47. Afterword: Tuning the Heart With Poetry
  48. Acknowledgements