Stewart Brown (born 1951 in

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, UK) is an English

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, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature."Stewart Brown: All Are Involved: The Art Of Martin Carter"
Voice of Guyana International.

Life and study

Brown is an English-born lecturer in Caribbean and African culture, particularly Literature, at the Centre of West African Studies,

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, since 1988, and has also spent periods teaching in schools and universities in

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and

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. He studied at Nottingham College of Education (a forerunner of

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) from 1969 to 1972, Falmouth School of Art (now

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) from 1975 to 1978, the

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(1978–79), and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now

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) from 1982 to 1987. One of the foremost scholars of West Indian literature in the UK, Brown has edited several seminal works on the subject. He has taught at

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, and at the

and

campuses of the

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. As an artist, he had several solo shows of paintings in Jamaica and the UK during the 1970s, and more recently his work has been exhibited in Birmingham, in Barbados, in

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and in

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. Also a poet, Brown received a Gregory Award in 1976 and has subsequently published four collections of poems, including ''Mekin Foolishness'' (1981), ''Zinder'' (1986) and ''Lugard's Bridge'' (1989).

Selected publications

* (Ed.) ''Caribbean Poetry Now'' (Edward Arnold, 1984; revised 2nd edition 1992, ).
(Ed.)
''The Art of

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'' ( Seren, 1995, ). * (Ed. with

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), ''Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean'' (1989). * (Ed. with Ian McDonald), ''The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry'' (1992). * ''Elsewhere: New and Selected Poems'' (Leeds:

Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books. Poet Kwame Dawes has said: "Peepal Tree Press's position as the leading pu ...

, 1999). * (Ed.
''Kiss and Quarrel: Yoruba/English Strategies of Mediation''
(Birmingham:

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Centre of African Studies Series 5, 2000, ). * ''All Are Involved: The Art of

Martin Carter Martin Wylde Carter (7 June 1927 – 13 December 1997) was a Guyanese poet and political activist. Widely regarded as the greatest Guyanese poet, and one of the most important poets of the Caribbean region, Carter is best known for his p ...

'' (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2000). * (Ed. with

Mark McWatt Mark McWatt (born 29 September 1947) is a Guyanese writer and former professor of English at University of the West Indies. Biography McWatt was born in 1947 in Guyana, attending many schools throughout the country due to his father's position a ...

) ''The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse'' (Oxford:

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, 2005) * ''Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on Poetry'' (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2007). * (Ed. with Ian McDonald
''The Bowling was Superfine: West Indian Writing and West Indian Cricket''
(Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, paperback 2012, ).

References

External links

Stewart Brown's website
* Stewart Brown
"Who is 'the other' anyway?"
Writers Mosaic, RLF. 1951 births Academic staff of the University of the West Indies Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of Aberystwyth University Alumni of Falmouth University Alumni of Nottingham Trent University Alumni of the University of Sussex British anthologists English Africanists English male poets Living people People from Southampton {{UK-academic-bio-stub