Kamau Brathwaite Equinox review and information of the content of the never-before-published poetry by the writer from Barbados. New Directions will publish the poetry collection of Kamau Brathwaite, on July 7, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.
Kamau Brathwaite Equinox reviews
- “Kamau Brathwaite is one of the most important poets in the Western Hemi sphere. A musicianly sensibility of sharp political reference.” (Amiri Baraka)
- “A brilliant new collection by the great Caribbean writer and scholar: “an engaging, deep-hearted, strong-spirited, and richly musical poet.” (The Multicutural Review)
Equinox
- Author: Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados)
- Book type: poems
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing
- Released: July 3, 2026
- Length: 160 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: $ 17,95
- Order book from: Amazon / Bol
Blurb of the Kamau Brathwait poetry book
Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling images and photographs, Equinox contains poems written in Brathwaite’s singular Barbadian vernacular and visionary style—poems about the Middle Passage, the natural world, Billie Holiday, Whitney Houston, the Kumina dance in Jamaica, Nelson and Winnie Mandela, the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, and Breughel’s painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” among many tidalectic topics.
The lyrical poems in Equinox weave together history and culture with the imagery of Brathwaite’s native Barbados, weaving a lush tapestry of injustice, redemp tion, and hope.
Edward Kamau Brathwaite was born on May 11, 1930 in Bridgetown, Barbados. He was a Caribbean writer and critic who writes on the experience of black cultural life throughout the worldwide African diaspora. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, Brathwaite was educated in Barbados and England and has received numerous awards for his poetry and cultural studies, including both Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. He has been a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University since 1992 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sussex in 2002. He died aged 89 on February 4, 2020 in Barbados.
