100+ Voices for Miss Lou

Synopsis

100+ Voices for Miss Lou (University of the West Indies Press), edited by Jamaican writer and scholar Opal Palmer Adisa, is a massive new anthology of essays, poems, interviews, and other writings celebrating the late Louise Bennett-Coverley, Jamaica’s beloved poet, who died in 2006. The list of contributors is a virtual who’s who of Jamaican literature and performance, with a sprinkling of writers from other Caribbean territories, all paying tribute to one of Jamaica’s most influential cultural figures.