1. For related discussion of the relationship between the categories of the avant-garde and the diasporic in relation to Black British poetry, see Lauri Ramey, “Situating a ‘Black’ British Poetic Avant-Garde,” in Black British Aesthetics Today, ed. R. Victoria Arana (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars P, 2007), 79–100. For a personal reflection on the experience and situation of a self-described Black avant-garde writer in England today, see Anthony Joseph’s essay “The Continuous Diaspora: Experimental Practice/s in Contemporary Black British Poetry,” Black British Aesthetics Today, 150–56.
2. See also Lauri Ramey, “Contemporary Black British Poetry,” in Black British Writing, ed. R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 109–36.
3. Stuart Hall, “Minimal Selves,” in Black British Cultural Studies, ed. Houston A. Baker, Manthia Diawara, and Ruth Lindeborg (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996), 14–15, original emphasis.
4. F. Abiola Irele, The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001), xv.
5. R. Victoria Arana, “Black American Bodies in the Neo-Millennial Avant-Garde Black British Poetry,” Literature and Psychology 48, no. 4 (2002): 72.