Brian Meeks
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Brian Meeks is a Caribbean poet and academic.
Brian Meeks was born in 1953 in Montreal
, Canada
, of West Indian parents, and grew up in Jamaica
. His poetry has been published in several anthologies. Meeks's novel, Paint the Town Red (Peepal Tree Press, 2003), is an exploration of the turbulent years of the 1970s in Jamaica (the first Michael Manley
administration) through the eyes of a young middle-class man.
Meeks teaches political science at the University of the West Indies
, Mona, Jamaica, and is director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the university.
He has written three books on radical politics in the Caribbean
.
Brian Meeks was born in 1953 in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, of West Indian parents, and grew up in Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
. His poetry has been published in several anthologies. Meeks's novel, Paint the Town Red (Peepal Tree Press, 2003), is an exploration of the turbulent years of the 1970s in Jamaica (the first Michael Manley
Michael Manley
Michael Norman Manley ON OCC was the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica . Manley was a democratic socialist....
administration) through the eyes of a young middle-class man.
Meeks teaches political science at the University of the West Indies
University of the West Indies
The University of the West Indies , is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica,...
, Mona, Jamaica, and is director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the university.
He has written three books on radical politics in the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
.