Stewart Brown

Stewart Brown (born 1951 in Southampton, UK) is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.

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 Jamaica, Nigeria, Wales and Barbados.

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: Oxford University Press, 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, ).