![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, he was the editor of New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology and the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series. He also wrote a book of “essays and prophecies” called Writing Down the Vision. Miller was born in Kingston, Jamaica, just thirty-nine years ago. He studied English at the University of the West Indies and then in Manchester, where he obtained a master’s in creative writing. More recently, he completed a Ph.D. Then I discovered that Miller is also a short-story writer, novelist, and essayist who has been winning prizes since he began publishing eight years earlier. And he’s been impressively prolific. The judges praised Miller’s ability to “defy expectations” and “set up oppositions only to undermine them,” commending the book’s “boldness and wit.” The Cartographer was his fourth collection. The book imagines a dialogue between a map-maker, a rationalist trying to impose order on an unknown land, and a Rastafarian-or Rastaman-who questions his project, offering a different way of understanding the world. ![]() I first heard of him when his 2014 poetry collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, won England’s prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry. A version of this conversation was broadcast on Writers & Company on CBC Radio One, produced by Sandra Rabinovitch. ![]()
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