Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE WINTER 2023 Mark Goodwin Alongside poems in praise of

Alongside poems in praise of the naivety of youth

We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town

the grandmother “usurping/with her birth cry” the land stolen from Aboriginal people

Sharma’s poetry is laced with musicality

Behold a wagtail

Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes <br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE WINTER 2023</b> Mark Goodwin Alongside poems in praise ofSturge Town is a stunning collection of poems that connects with the earliest days of Kwame Dawes' work as a poet, from the roots of childhood in Ghana to the reflections of a man turned sixty who is witnessing his children occupying the space he once considered his own. It ranges from poems that make something special of the everyday, to poems of the most astonishing imaginative leaps. There are poems that speak most movingly of moments of acute self