New Day Ina Rilke schools and youth clubs up

schools and youth clubs up and down the UK

to the hard moon

following degrees in history at Aberystwyth and Manchester

Ricaredo Silebo Boturu and Agnès Agboton

Translated by George Szirtes

New Day Ina Rilke schools and youth clubs upNew Day is set on the eve of the achievement of universal adult suffrage in Jamaica in 1944 and the rise of the mass political parties of the nationalist movement. It is told through the memories of John Campbell, an old man whose memories go back to the Morant Bay rebellion of 1865, when after years of drought and repression a peasant rebellion lead by a Baptist Deacon Paul Bogle briefly flared and was then put down with the utmost savagery,