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"
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Life and study

Brown is an English-born lecturer in Caribbean and African culture, particularly Literature, at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, 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 Nottingham Trent University) from 1969 to 1972, Falmouth School of Art (now Falmouth University) 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 Bayero University,

, and at the

and

campuses of the

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

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and in Guyana. Also a poet, he 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 Kamau Brathwaite'' ( Seren, 1995, ). * (Ed. with Mervyn Morris, Gordon Rohlehr), ''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, 1999). * (Ed.
''Kiss and Quarrel: Yoruba/English Strategies of Mediation''
(Birmingham: Birmingham University Centre of African Studies Series 5, 2000, ). * ''All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter'' (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2000). * (Ed. with Mark McWatt) ''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
Living people Academic staff of the University of the West Indies Academics of the University of Birmingham Alumni of Falmouth University 1951 births English Africanists Alumni of Nottingham Trent University Alumni of Aberystwyth University Alumni of the University of Sussex English male poets {{UK-academic-bio-stub