| Editor | Paula Burnett |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd, Viking Penguin, Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Penguin Books Canada Ltd, Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd |
| Cover Artist | Dunstan St. Omer |
| Publisher Series | Penguin Poetry |
| Printed and Bound by | Cox & Wyman Ltd |
| Typeset by | Rowland Typesetting Ltd |
| Poetry by | Michael McTurk, Edward Cordle, James Martinez, Marcus Garvey, Slim and Sam, Louise Bennett, Bruce St John, Lord Kitchener, The Mighty Sparrow, The Mighty Chalkdust, Marc Matthews, Delano Abdul Malik De Coteau, Paul Keens-Douglas, Toots Hibbert, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, Legon Cogil, Carlton Barrett, Bob Marley, Christopher Laird, Frederick Williams, Bongo Jerry, Eddy Grant, Lillian Allen, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mutabaruka, Frank Collymore, J. E. Clare McFarlane, Philip Sherlock, Una Marson, Vivian Virtue, A. J. Seymour, Phyllis Allfrey, Eric Roach, George Campbell, Barbara Ferland, John Figueroa, Wilson Harris, A. L. Hendriks, Basil McFarlane, Gloria Escoffery, Louis Simpson, James Berry, Jan Carew, Martin Carter, Evan Jones, Shake Keane, Daniel Williams, Andrew Salkey, Henry Beissel, Derek Walcott, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Edward Lucie-Smith, Abdur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson, Ivan Van Sertima, Edward Baugh, Howard Fergus, Claire Harris, Mervyn Morris, LeRoy Clarke, E. A. Markham, Dennis Scott, Anthony McNeil, Judy Miles, Kevyn Arthur, Pamela Mordecai, Roger McTair, Olive Senior, Wayne Brown, Faustin Charles, Cyril Dabydeen, Marlene Philip, Lorna Goodyson, John Robert Lee, John Agard, Victor Questel, Grace Nichols, Kendel Hippolyte, Dionne Brand, David Dabydeen, Fragano Ledgister, Fred D'Aguiar |
| Selected by | Paula Burnett |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Harmondsworth; New York; Ringwood; Markham; Auckland |
| Copyright | 1986 |
| Pages / Font | 447 pages / Trump Medieval [Linotron 202] |
| ISBN | 0-14-058511-7 |
| Price | U.K. £4.95 / AUST. $14.95 (recommended) / N.Z. $16.95 / CAN. $12.95 / U.S.A. $ 8.95 |
| Barcode | 9 780140 585117 90000 |
