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A dance hall session in poetry, Wheel and Come Again takes readers into the heart of reggae, into the seduction of the drum and bass. The poems mix all the resources of language with the reggae mood.

When the guitars tickle a bedrock of drum and bass, when the girl a shock out and a steady hand curve round her sweat-smooth waist, when the smell of Charlie mingles with the chemicals of her hair and the groove is of the sweetest friction - how is a young man to keep his way pure? Kwame Dawes's poetry rises to new heights in these psalms of confession and celebrations of reggae's power to prophesy, to seek after righteousness and seduce the b...

Poems of Jamaica, of Canada, of Africa, poems of rejoicing, faith, love and humour from the winner of the 1994 Forward Trust Poetry Prize.

Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and studied and taught in New Brunswick, Canada. He has published five volumes of poetry, an anthology of reggae poetry, and a critical volume on reggae music and literature. His first book of poems, Progeny of Air, won the prestigous Forward Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.