Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE WINTER 2023 Pedro Mir and the right to raise

and the right to raise children in peace and safety

' – Peter Abbs

Raging with vivid

As with Seamus Heaney

Each poem is paired with Padraig's illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem

Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes <br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE WINTER 2023</b> Pedro Mir and the right to raiseSturge 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