Omaar Hena researches and teaches poetry in English, race and literature, and queer studies at Wake Forest University. His first book, Global Anglophone Poetry (Palgrave, 2015), studied postcolonial poetry and globalization. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century British Black and Asian Poetry.

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• Introduction: British Black and Asian poetry in crisis; 1. Policing the crisis, sounding the violence: Linton Kwesi Johnson; 2. Voices of dissent: Valerie Bloom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze and Amryl Johnson; 3. Beyond recognition: race, visual culture, and ekphrasis in Maud Sulter and David Dabydeen; 4. Canons, publishing, and publics: Bernadine Evaristo, Lemn Sissay and Daljit Nagra; Surplus lyric: poetics of riot in Bhanu Kapil and D. S. Marriott; Conclusion: prizing race, race in crisis.

Omaar Hena researches and teaches poetry in English, race and literature, and queer studies at Wake Forest University. His first book, Global Anglophone Poetry (Palgrave, 2015), studied postcolonial poetry and globalization. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century British Black and Asian Poetry.

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• Introduction: British Black and Asian poetry in crisis; 1. Policing the crisis, sounding the violence: Linton Kwesi Johnson; 2. Voices of dissent: Valerie Bloom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze and Amryl Johnson; 3. Beyond recognition: race, visual culture, and ekphrasis in Maud Sulter and David Dabydeen; 4. Canons, publishing, and publics: Bernadine Evaristo, Lemn Sissay and Daljit Nagra; Surplus lyric: poetics of riot in Bhanu Kapil and D. S. Marriott; Conclusion: prizing race, race in crisis.

Omaar Hena researches and teaches poetry in English, race and literature, and queer studies at Wake Forest University. His first book, Global Anglophone Poetry (Palgrave, 2015), studied postcolonial poetry and globalization. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century British Black and Asian Poetry.

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• Introduction: British Black and Asian poetry in crisis; 1. Policing the crisis, sounding the violence: Linton Kwesi Johnson; 2. Voices of dissent: Valerie Bloom, Jean 'Binta' Breeze and Amryl Johnson; 3. Beyond recognition: race, visual culture, and ekphrasis in Maud Sulter and David Dabydeen; 4. Canons, publishing, and publics: Bernadine Evaristo, Lemn Sissay and Daljit Nagra; Surplus lyric: poetics of riot in Bhanu Kapil and D. S. Marriott; Conclusion: prizing race, race in crisis.