Kamau Brathwaite is one of the most important poets in the Western Hemi sphere. A musicianly sensibility of sharp political reference.

Amiri Baraka

A brilliant new collection by the great Caribbean writer and scholar: “an engaging, deep-hearted, strong-spirited, and richly musical poet” (The Multicultural Review)

Available Jul 07, 2026

Equinox

Poetry by Kamau Brathwaite

Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork com pleted by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling images and photographs, Equinox contains poems written in Brathwaite’s singular Barbadian vernacular and visionary style—poems about the Middle Passage, the natural world, Billie Holiday, Whitney Houston, the Kumina dance in Jamaica, Nelson and Winnie Mandela, the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, and Breughel’s painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” among many tidalectic topics. The lyrical poems in Equinox weave together history and culture with the imagery of Brathwaite’s native Barbados, weaving a lush tapestry of injustice, redemp tion, and hope.

Paperback

published: Jul 07, 2026

ISBN:
9780811224475
Price U.S.:
17.95
Trim Size:
5x8
Page Count:
144

Ebook

published: Jul 07, 2026

ISBN:
9780811224482
Price U.S.:
17.48
Page Count:
144
Portrait of Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite

Contemporary Caribbean writer

Kamau Brathwaite is one of the most important poets in the Western Hemi sphere. A musicianly sensibility of sharp political reference.

Amiri Baraka

To read Kamau Brathwaite is to enter into an entire world of human and natural histories, beautiful landscapes and their destruction, children’s street songs, high lyricism, court documents, personal letters, literary criticism, sa cred rites, eroticism and violence, the dead and the undead, confession and reportage.

2006 Griffin Poetry Prize Citation

Brathwaite showed me a new, richer path to self-respect, aiding me in acknowledging the sea-crossing language that ties Africa to the Caribbean shores I grew up on, and, through this, he helped me remember how I love my old home when I needed to rediscover that love the most.

Gabrielle Bellot, The New York Review of Books