Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen Toys & Games of her mother and grandmother’s

of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons

Publisher: Kegedonce Press (August 2019)

It portrays the war experience of tens of thousands of young Canadians

and learn to give our own gifts in return

this influential

Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen Toys & Games of her mother and grandmother’sLillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and offering exciting sounds of protest and a careful, detailed documenting of everyday life as political praxis. Make the World New brings together some of the highlights of Lillian Allen's work in a single