John La Rose
(1928-2006), Publisher, poet and essayistSitter in 1 portrait
Publisher, poet, essayist. During the 1940s and 1950s in Trinidad, La Rose was involved in the workers' rights movement, before settling in London in 1961. With fellow writers, Andrew Salkey and Edward Kamau Braithwaite, he founded the Caribbean Artists' Movement in 1966 and his publishing company, New Beacon Books. Chairman of the Institute of Race Relations (1972-3) and of Towards Racial Justice, the campaign journal of which was Race Today. He pioneered the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books.
'The Lime' (Samuel Selvon; John La Rose; Andrew Salkey)
by Horace Ové
giclée print, 1974
NPG x126733
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