Kamau Brathwaite - Selected Works

Selected Works

Selected works of Brathwaite and the year of publication follow:

• Four Plays for Primary Schools (1964)
• Odale's Choice (1967)
• Rights of Passage (1967)
• Masks (1968)
• Islands (1969)
• Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica (1970)
• The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820 (1971)
• The Arrivants (1973)
• Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean (1974)
• Other Exiles (1975)
• Days & Nights (1975)
• Black + Blues (1976)
• Mother Poem (1977)
• Soweto (1979)
• History of the Voice (1979)
• Jamaica Poetry (1979)
• Barbados Poetry (1979)
• Sun Poem (1982)
• Afternoon of the Status Crow (1982)
• Gods of the Middle Passage (1982)
• Third World Poems (1983)
• History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (1984)
• Jah Music (1986)
• X/Self (1987)
• Sappho Sakyi's Meditations (1989)
• Shar (1992)
• Middle Passages (1992)
• The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926 - 7 September 1986 (1993)
• Trenchtown Rock (1993)
• Barabajan Poems (1994)
• Dream Stories (1994)
• Words Need Love Too (2000)
• Ancestors (2001)
• Magical Realism (2002)
• Golokwati (2002)
• Born to Slow Horses (2005) (winner of the 2006 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Limbo As published in Oxford AQA GCSE English Anthology 2005 and 2008
• Elegguas (2010)