Kei Miller

This week our producer Colin Fraser comes from behind the microphone and takes the podcast reigns to introduce the SPL poet of month, Kei Miller, who appeared at last week's West Port Book Festival. We took a recording of his special event in Edinburgh Books where a captive audience was dazzled by Kei's breathtaking performance of his work. Kei is reading from his astounding new book A Light Song of Light which is available for borrowing at the SPL. Special Guest Star: Ryan Van Winkle. Hosted and produced by Colin Fraser. Music by Ewen Maclean. Email us: splpodcast@gmail.com

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First published 2 July, 2010

About Kei Miller

Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet and novelist. He read English at the University of the West Indies and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. His PhD work considers epistolary narratives from the Caribbean.

His first collection was There is an Anger that Moves and he is editor of New Caribbean Poetry (both Carcanet, 2007). Carcanet have published his newest collection, A Light Song of Light, out in July 2010, and his latest novel, The Last Warner Woman, is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. He teaches at the University of Glasgow and has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, a Vera Rubin Fellow at Yaddo, and an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. 

• More about Kei in our A - Z page, including his poem 'If this short poem stretches'
• More about Kei from the Carcanet website

We recommend...

	A Light Song of Light by Kei Miller Manchester : Carcanet, 2010. A Light Song of Light sings in the rhythms of ritual and folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool wit, finding the languages in which poetry can sing in dark times. SPL shelfmark: 3.Mil
	There Is an Anger That Moves by Kei Miller Manchester : Carcanet, 2007. The six sequences of There Is an Anger that Moves travel from Jamaica to England and back. A mother's heart is broken; men fall in love secretly; people dance until they die. 'Raise high the roofbeams, here comes a strong new presence in poetry...Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.' - Lorna Goodison SPL shelfmark: 3.Mil
	Fancy some prose with that poetry? The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010. In a story about magic and migration, about stories and story-telling, we discover it is never one person who owns a story, or who has the right to tell it.

Find out more...

• Search SPL catalogue and borrow these items

Related links...

• Kei took part at the West Port Book Festival alongside Ewan Morrsion
• The event took place in Edinburgh Books
  

Image: Light by Chris Scott