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POET LAUREATE OF JAMAICA

2021-2024

Olive Senior

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POETRY

Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021-2024 - Olive Senior

About

OLIVE SENIOR

Olive Senior, the current Poet Laureate of Jamaica, was born and brought up in the parish of Trelawny, Jamaica. She was educated at the Montego Bay High School in St. James, Jamaica and later in Canada at Carleton University.

Olive Senior is the prizewinning author of 18 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honours being recognized as a writer, researcher and literary luminary across the world.

Olive Senior Kings House Jamaica 2021 Investiture Ceremony

The Jamaica Poetry Archive

The Jamaica Poetry Archive is a permanent and ever expanding audio collection of Jamaican poets reading their own works.  This regulatory will serve as an educational resource in the teaching and promotion of Jamaican poetry across the world.  The JPA is an initiative of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme, hosted by the National Library of Jamaica

HIGHTLIGHTS

WORLD POETRY DAY 2022

World Poetry Day – March 21, 2022

DUB / REGGAE POETRY

National Gallery of Jamaica – March 2, 2022

INVESTITURE

Kings House Jamaica. March 17, 2021

WORLD POETRY DAY 2021

 World Poetry Day Jamaica, March 21, 2021

Distinguished Lecture 2021