The Writers of Wales Database

BROWN, STEWART

Born 1951 in Southampton, Stewart Brown is a poet, editor and critic. He studied art and literature at Falmouth School of Art, the University of Sussex and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He spent periods teaching in schools and universities in Jamaica, Nigeria, Wales and Barbados. Since 1988 he has taught in The Centre of West African Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he is now Reader in African and Caribbean literatures. He has travelled widely through West Africa and the Caribbean in relation to both his research and creative writing, and lectured for the British Council in both regions. As a poet he received a Gregory Award in 1976 and has subsequently published four collections of poetry.In the 70s he had several one–man–shows of paintings in Jamaica and the UK, and he continues to make visual images. He has edited or co-edited several anthologies of African and Caribbean writing and critical studies of the West Indian poets Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter.

Selected Publications:
Mekin Foolishness (1981)
Zinder (Seren, 1986)
Lugard’s Bridge (Seren, 1989)
Elsewhere (Peepal Tree, 1999)
Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on Poetry (Peepal Tree, 2007)

Contributed to:
Voiceprint (co-editor) (Longman, 1990)
Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories (Caribbean Writers Series) (editor) (Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks, 1990)
The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry (co-editor) (Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks, 1992)
Caribbean Poetry Now (editor) (Hodder Arnold, 1992)
The Art of Derek Walcott (editor) (Seren, 1995)
The Art of Kamau Brathwaite (editor) (Seren, 1995)
African New Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Prose and Poetry (editor) (Longman, 1997)  
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories (co-editor) (Oxford University Press, 1999)    
‘All Are Involved’: The Art of Martin Carter (editor) (Peepal Tree Press, 2000)  
Kiss and Quarrel: Yoruba/English: Strategies of Mediation (editor) (CWAS African Studies Series, 2001)
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Poetry (co-editor) (Oxford University Press, 2004)
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse (Oxford Book of Verse) (co-writer) (Oxford University Press, 2005)
The Bowling Was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket (co-writer) (Peepal Tree, 2009)