Prophets is Kwame Dawes' third book of poems in the space of just a couple of years. His first two collections, Progeny of Air and Resisting the Anomie , explored in various ways the issues of race, gender, patriarchy, sexuality, growing up, religion, music, the Caribbean landscape and the act of writing itself. The new book picks up on many of these elements in an ambitious sweep and attempts to push their core even further.