ABSTRACT
Paul Breman's Heritage Series, initiated since the 1960s, was perceived by me as a non-popular attempt to reflect the editor's own idiosyncratic perspective and taste of "Black" poetry. The books were never available in what we now call African bookshops whether in the UK or the US. In them times, 2007, there is a take-up on poetry, but it has ignited to performance poetry, orature, of which a very small handful has mastered the art of the ability to perform effectively and for the poetry to live on the page. Paul's sensibility was that of chthtonic culture, the cultivated, the litterateur, not the uneducated reader seeking instant understanding and bullet-in-your face thrills. The fact that the Breman press has come to an end is a signal to the ending of an era and the commencement of another.
