Karaoke King

This confident second collection addresses the contentious nature of the time. Always deeply thoughtful but also alternately ebullient, angry, curious, ashamed, the poet moves through urban and digital spaces feeling both uneasy and exhilarated. There is a sense of history shifting, as a younger generation confronts its ethical obligations, its sense of complicity and disappointment. Karaoke King also contains numerous reflections on popular culture, culminating in 'A History of Jamaican Music', a sequence speaking to urgent contemporary questions of ownership and privilege, pain and celebration.