Return to Streets of Eternity - Softcover

Return to the Streets of Eternity brings together, for the first time, poems written during a life-time of passionate engagement in anti-colonial, civil rights, black power and liberation movements, including many previously unpublished tributes to nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutionary leaders and to writers like Martin Carter, Dennis Brutus, Agostinho Neto, Andrew Salkey, Alejo Carpentier and Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Jan Carew (1920-2012) was born in a village in Guyana, and educated in the US, at Charles University in Prague and the Sorbonne in Paris. A prolific author of fiction, history, essays, children s books, plays and poetry, his books include Black Midas, The Last Barbarian, Rape of Paradise and The Guyanese Wanderer. He was the personal advisor to several heads of government, including Cheddi Jagan, Kwame Nkrumah and Michael Manley. He reported from inside Cuba for the Observer during the Cuban Missile Crisis, was working in Ghana at the time of the 1966 coup, and lived in revolutionary Grenada.