There are some wonderful pieces in Kwame Dawes’s collection “Sturge Town”, and lots of those “I wish I’d written that moments”. So let me recommend it to you right off the bat.
But…
If I was being picky, for me the book had some downsides: I thought it was too long (there were just too many poems, if that’s even possible); and I struggled with the section where the focus was on religion and God, and partly too in the section about his father. I recognise the corruption of the whole this may have caused, but not having those two chunks may (to my mind) have made “Sturge Town” a stronger collection.
Ian Gouge - Writer 