About the Book

Michael's first album, Self Assession, was released in 1993 as a cassette tape.  In 1995, it was released as a CD.  His second album, Root 2 Fruit was released as a CD in 1998 and in 2000, Michael created a chapbook, Root 2 Fruit Lyrics by Michael St. George.  In 2001, Michael completed a compilation of his work to publish, this title—his first dub poetry book, Night Spin.

Primarily a performer, Michael works many late nights—a time for introspection. He uses the night-time silence to capture his reflections. He thrives on his drive along social, political and spiritual roads. Through Night Spin, readers become Michael's passengers on his train of contemplation, beaming thoughts that glow with a dub poet's artistry, enlightening, lightening and enriching our lives.

Back Copy Reviews

michael st. george is one of the hardest working, relentlessly touring, constantly performing and recording poets out/there right now. he has supa-bad skills in the use of language. the way he vocalises and marries crucial concerns with dynamic music in his live performances is captivating. his mastery of the dub poetic form and sensibility is out/standing. his poetry brims with the experience of a seasoned chronicler, a masterer of his form, in his form. "night spin" brings together poems that will jump at you, take you through moods and modalities, politics and poetics. "night spin" is bright like morning.

Clifton Joseph

Michael's work resonates as a clear-clear, strident movement that is bold, daring, honest, funny, politically insightful and inspiring. It is poetic. It is sweet too, when that is what is needed. It is right in time.

Althea Prince

While eschewing metaphor and indirection in favour of unvarnished rhetoric and direct analysis, these poems don't lose the heart beat or pulse of poetry. Indeed, they chant, bop, hop, hip, and sing! Listen closely to the mouth music: Dub has a new voice singing the body electric!

Richard Stevenson

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About the Author

Michael St. George travels, performs, writes, produces and publishes music.

About the Illustrator

Marlene Lacey

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